08-02-2009, 11:41 AM
IIRC, your engine is "Carnifex". Yes? Which is either John Antsee's original sliding trigger in-swinger or a close relative. A true outside-the-box thinker. I wish I could have met the man. 
He was scoffed at by some when he proposed the idea. In fact, it was a certain remark about how his idea was outside the historical record that helped get me questioning exactly what the sources had to say about sliders. As I found out, the accepted way of things was more a series of assumtions than hard facts. It is only one solution, and not necessarily the best one compared to the scarce evidence (Cupid Gem). By my reckoning, the trigger block on an in-swinger would be wider, and since it extends out unsupported beyond the ladder, the canalis fundus should be more substantial. This seems to continue a trend that the blocks started out narrow (Vitruvius) and got wider (Cremona) and wider still into the iron-framers.
Regards,
Clodius
He was scoffed at by some when he proposed the idea. In fact, it was a certain remark about how his idea was outside the historical record that helped get me questioning exactly what the sources had to say about sliders. As I found out, the accepted way of things was more a series of assumtions than hard facts. It is only one solution, and not necessarily the best one compared to the scarce evidence (Cupid Gem). By my reckoning, the trigger block on an in-swinger would be wider, and since it extends out unsupported beyond the ladder, the canalis fundus should be more substantial. This seems to continue a trend that the blocks started out narrow (Vitruvius) and got wider (Cremona) and wider still into the iron-framers.Regards,
Clodius
P. Clodius Secundus (Randi Richert), Legio III Cyrenaica
"Caesar\'s Conquerors"
"Caesar\'s Conquerors"
