12-13-2007, 04:44 AM
Dane,
The Manuballista is looking great, I hope you can bring it to Founder's Day at Higgins. When you get ready to make up the metal cladding I'm sure my local metal fab shop can cut and bend the pieces.
Duncan,
Did you get a chance to see the design for the Carroballista that I posted on the Carrus and Carroballista thread? I've been doing some photoanalysis of the images on Trajan's and overlaying CAD drawings of just the weapons parts. My hope was that by holding the aspect ratio (height/width) the same I can make all the CAD versions the same size and get some rough consensus as to the relative sizes and placements of components. I can also compare them to my design as sort of a reality check. I superimposed a model of a 79mm washer field frame and it sure seems like it will all work.
Has anyone out there tried using parachute cord AKA 550 Cord for spring rope? It's thin nylon cord with an outer sleeve of colored sheathing. It's rated at 550lb test (hence the name) It might be braided somehow to make up a larger/stronger cord. The nice thing is that it's available in a brownish color and possibly in tan as well. I bought a couple of lengths to test with.
The Manuballista is looking great, I hope you can bring it to Founder's Day at Higgins. When you get ready to make up the metal cladding I'm sure my local metal fab shop can cut and bend the pieces.
Duncan,
Did you get a chance to see the design for the Carroballista that I posted on the Carrus and Carroballista thread? I've been doing some photoanalysis of the images on Trajan's and overlaying CAD drawings of just the weapons parts. My hope was that by holding the aspect ratio (height/width) the same I can make all the CAD versions the same size and get some rough consensus as to the relative sizes and placements of components. I can also compare them to my design as sort of a reality check. I superimposed a model of a 79mm washer field frame and it sure seems like it will all work.
Has anyone out there tried using parachute cord AKA 550 Cord for spring rope? It's thin nylon cord with an outer sleeve of colored sheathing. It's rated at 550lb test (hence the name) It might be braided somehow to make up a larger/stronger cord. The nice thing is that it's available in a brownish color and possibly in tan as well. I bought a couple of lengths to test with.
P. Clodius Secundus (Randi Richert), Legio III Cyrenaica
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