Catapults are neat machines. There variations that can have amazing ranges.
E.g. the trebuchet - http://www.trebuchet.com/firstfat
http://www.guinnessw...0-kg-and-over%29/
Have fun!
Cheers,
Scott.
Keep it simple.
Catapults are neat machines. There variations that can have amazing ranges.
E.g. the trebuchet - http://www.trebuchet.com/firstfat http://www.guinnessw...0-kg-and-over%29/ Have fun! Cheers, Scott. |
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I was going to suggest trebuchet myself
The difference is gravity VS springs.
Simpler to build, very repeatable launches, safer, and with enough weight, very effective. ---------------------------------------
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That's what I would suggest, too.
I've seen enthusiasts (re)create trebuchets, catapults and mangonels on quite a number of documentaries and trubechets are easily the safest and simplest device of the three. The tension mechanism required for the latter two adds quite a lot more complexity to the design.
Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
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ideas?
- (boxley)
- (12)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 12:36:27 AM EST
Keep it simple.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 01:01:27 AM EST
I was going to suggest trebuchet myself
- (mhuber)
- (1)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 10:32:54 AM EST
That's what I would suggest, too.
- (static)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 06:45:05 PM EST
Spring steel
- (drook)
- (6)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 02:06:42 AM EST
instructions
- (boxley)
- (2)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 12:46:26 PM EST
Get a framing square
- (drook)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 01:32:11 PM EST
Sounds like a Science Olympiad project.
- (Another Scott)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 01:45:37 PM EST
Impulse == Force x Time
- (Ashton)
- (2)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 06:14:14 PM EST
Trebuchet wins again
- (mhuber)
- (1)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 09:04:35 PM EST
Maybe so.. clever lads, those ancient warmongers
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Nov. 20, 2012, 05:07:19 AM EST
What is DIMS?
- (crazy)
- (1)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 08:53:28 AM EST
Dimensions
-NT
- (drook)
- Nov. 18, 2012, 09:51:54 AM EST
