{"id":3726,"date":"2018-12-16T04:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3726","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3726","title":{"rendered":"The projectiles for the Vernier Projectile Launcher and Go Direct Projectile Launcher do not easily go into the barrel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As projectile launchers are used, the projectiles (balls) may transfer some dirt to the inner surface of the barrel. The design of the launchers depend on a close fit between the ball and the barrel, so any additional material will cause friction and launch irregularities. <\/p>\n<p>To clean the barrel, try two things:<br \/>\n1) Wipe the inside of the barrel with a clean rag and the commercial solvent &#8220;Goo Gone&#8221; or &#8220;Goof Off&#8221;.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Alcohol will not remove wax, and so is not recommended.<br \/>\n2) If the solvent does not remove enough material, wipe the inside of the barrel near the lip with 1500 grit sandpaper.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is important to use very fine sand paper; if a coarser grit is used, the inner dimension of the barrel may change too much. <\/p>\n<p>Occasional cleaning of the projectiles with solvent (as noted above) will help keep gunk out of the barrel.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Do not use oils to clean the projectiles as the oil can damage the launcher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/product\/vernier-projectile-launcher\/\">Vernier Projectile Launcher<\/a> (<nobr>VPL<\/nobr>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-projectile-launcher\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Projectile Launcher<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-PL<\/nobr>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As projectile launchers are used, the projectiles (balls) may transfer some dirt to the inner surface of the barrel. The design of the launchers depend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6293,6295,6296,4369,4314,6294],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-balls-ball-dirty","tag-debris-dust","tag-fit-slide-load","tag-gdx-pl","tag-vpl","tag-wax-paper"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}