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Originally Posted by Targan
True but wooden sabots would have their own problems. Pine would be easy to work with but contains alot of resin so it would present cleaning issues too. And many lighter woods expand greatly and/or warp when exposed to moisture so they would have to be carved smaller than the bore diameter to avoid nasty firing accidents. Harder woods would be less prone to warping and would probably be reusable as sabots but would be harder to source and machine. I guess you would lathe a length of wood to the required diamter, bore a hole down the middle, saw it into disks then cut each disk in half.
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Don't misunderstand. I'm not a proponent of either. I'd rather fire 81mm rounds from it.
That said, the problems from wood would be a lot more easily mitigated with more options than paper mache or styrofoam, because no matter what type of paper you use, it's still mache. The same with styrofoam.