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Trebuchets
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Date: 
Tue, 13 May 2003 11:45:20 GMT
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Has anyone ever made one?  Anybody got pix?  Thanks!

Mike



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  Re: Trebuchets
 
(...) I haven't made a trebuchet (it would be an interesting engineering challenge for relatively lightweight LEGO bricks) but I did make a Krana-pult that can launch a Krana over six feet. (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Trebuchets
 
Hello! (...) I'm not sure if I understand the term 'trebuchet' correctly (Catapult, Onager?) but I've built a catapult with (an mediocre good) working spring mechanism: (URL) would rather call it an Onager. Unfortunmatelly the Technic suspension (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Trebuchets
 
(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Trebuchets
 
not trying to be rude here, but usually when i've got a question like this, the first thing i do is go to (URL) and do a search. here's what i found: (URL) what appears to be 5 different trebuchet designs. also, search lugnet itself. (URL) course (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Trebuchets
 
(...) I made two; one robotic one with a RCX as weight (not recommended!), and one for a never played Brikwars battle. Sadly I don't have any pix. You might find this interesing: (URL) this helps, Nathan Lord Of The LEGO PS has anyone been able to (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Trebuchets
 
(...) rtlToronto have made one. Photos of the Trebuchet: (URL) homepage (see right bottom corner under "Test Events": (URL) friend also built one on a LEGO-fest I held back in April. It's still assembled at home but I have yet to make photos of it (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Trebuchets
 
There's one down the road from my house.. its not made of LEGO tho :) (URL) fire it into the moat as demonstration on festival open days. The shockwave of the boulders hitting the water kill a fair few fish. -- James Stacey ---...--- (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Trebuchets
 
(...) Well with everyone having so much fun on the topic I had to add my two bricks. (URL) 9v Battery Boxes(with bat's). I was interested in seeing if the adding of wheels (mentioned on Nova) made diff on range. Not much with out a sling but... It (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.castle)

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