ANST - Softening ballista bolts

Keith Hood keith_dell at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 11 07:39:01 PST 1998


>
>Azrael wrote:
>
>I am working on a repeating (10 shot) ballista for gulf this year....I 
could really use some help with the bolts though...the design I am using 
is very close to the tips used on fiberglass spears. tennis balls just 
hit way too
>hard out of this thing. <
>

There is also the option of powering down the device.  I've seen other 
ballistae that throw GT bolts tipped with tennis balls almost 100 yards, 
and the impact from them is no problem.  If you're getting dangerous 
velocities out of something that uses the tennis balls only, I'd think 
you would want to reconsider the draw on it.

And, I'd love to see the thing.  Got any pictures?


      Tomonaga


-- 
A long bow and a strong bow,
And let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
And a foreign king for a mark!

        -- Stolen from "The Song of the Bosonian Archers" --
               By Robert E. Howard, who should be
                 the patron saint of Ansteorra


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