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Re: Lego Trebuchet
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:25:52 GMT
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Hey,
Cool, Very Cool! I think the overall design of the trebuchet is great. If I am
not mistaken I think that you can reduce the "rolling" that the trebuchet makes
if you make the weight hinged at the end rather than having it fixed. This will
make your projectiles fly farther. Here is a link to a picture of a hinged lego
trebuchet, (I didn't build this)
http://www.weirdrichard.com/images/wbbtre2.jpg
Good luck and be sure to put more pictures up!
Erik Bush
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| (...) Thanks :) It was a fun project. (...) Actually in real scale test of trebuchets that were the same size as the old medieval ones it was determined that the rolling did not hurt the distance. It just tended to put less stress on the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| Hey, I just finished an all Lego Trebuchet. Here is a link to its page on my website: (URL) website talks about it. It was just a quick project so I could play around and see exactly how a Trebuchet works. Well post what you guys think, and please (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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