I have completed the carriage, barrels and housing for the D&E but after a good bit of discussion on the Yahoo group I have decided it may be impossible or at best very difficult to get the D&E design to work. I don't believe anyone has actually said or showed a video of a working gun. There are a number of inherent problems with the design. The two major problems are first, the gun just can not handle the cumulative firing pin spring tension. Second, the firing pins do not hit on the rim of the bullet. You can review the discussion on the Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GatlingGun There are some picture of a couple of different firing pin designs in the pictures section on the Yahoo group that guys are testing to see if they can get the gun to shot reliably. I was very discouraged when I discovered the problems with the design. Sorry I can't give you more encouragement. My hope at the point is to use the carriage and barrels and built the RGG gun Dennis
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