Paper Trebuchet

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Mikeus Caesar 20:03 25/04/05

I found an interesting site where you can download the templates for a Paper Trebuchet: http://www.fryerskits.demon.co.uk/treb/ It should keep me amused for a few days. according to the website it can throw grapes 30ft through the air.

The Stranger 20:09 25/04/05

hater

Mikeus Caesar 18:24 26/04/05

Erm...what?

Dutch_guy 18:26 26/04/05

I think he's still talking about that , '' you hate europe thingy ''
in that other thread , which you started.

Big King Sanctaphrax 18:33 26/04/05

Drop it, or the thread gets closed.

Mikeus Caesar 18:33 26/04/05

Can we not bring that topic here Emperor MooMoo, and stick with the paper Trebuchet's?

P.S thank you Big King.

The_Doctor 18:39 26/04/05

once, I built a catapult from a chair, Lego and some shoe laces.

Mikeus Caesar 18:41 26/04/05

I was built a mini crossbow out of glue, elastic bands and ice-pop sticks. IT broke when i tried to fire it a third time, as the stresses on the ice-pop sticks were to large for them.

Craterus 18:45 26/04/05

I'll put confidence in my throwing power and accuracy when throwing grapes/other throwable objects rather than build one of those..

A ready-made one, however, I would gladly take off your hands..

Mikeus Caesar 18:48 26/04/05

I also could easily throw a grape that far if i wanted, but it's just the pure coolness of owning your own paper trebuchet!! Maybe if it works, i could transfer the same design into a larger wooden version....

Adrian II 18:48 26/04/05

Originally Posted by Mikeus Caesar:
I found an interesting site where you can download the templates for a Paper Trebuchet: http://www.fryerskits.demon.co.uk/treb/ It should keep me amused for a few days. according to the website it can throw grapes 30ft through the air.

Looks good, I'm going to build this one with my kids age 7 and 9.
No offence, Dad enjoys it just as much...

Hurin_Rules 18:59 26/04/05

I once built a partice accelerator from a plastic straw, a bag of doritos and some yellow-cake uranium I bought in Africa.

Adrian II 19:12 26/04/05

Where did you buy the particles?

Big_John 19:55 26/04/05

Originally Posted by AdrianII:
Where did you buy the particles?

they emanate from the uranium, silly.

Adrian II 20:05 26/04/05

Originally Posted by Big_John:
they emanate from the uranium, silly.

Really?

Big_John 20:13 26/04/05

that's what the uranium is for.. the particles.. what else would one ever use uranium for?

Adrian II 20:15 26/04/05

Originally Posted by Big_John:
that's what the uranium is for.. the particles.. what else would one ever use uranium for?

To bake the yellow cakes, do'h!

DemonArchangel 20:29 26/04/05

I made my own catapult out of wood, rubber bands and nails.

It's around 2 ft. tall and hurls a 9mm bullet around 80 ft.

Hurin_Rules 20:30 26/04/05

Yes, I used Betty Crocker's Easy Bake Yellow Cake recipe to make it in high-tensile Aluminum tubes and a portable weapons... I mean, weather balloon railcar I found in Tikrit.

Arrowhead 20:35 26/04/05

Now this story is an illustrious peice in my family history...

My family was sitting on a beach and i decided to make a ballista. so I picked up a stone to see wether it was a good one and threw it. It bounced off my mum's leg, hit my dad's head and fell into the sea.

Mikeus Caesar 20:38 26/04/05

What fell in the sea? The rock or your dad?

Craterus 20:53 26/04/05

Good question, and off her leg onto his head? Must have bounced quite well too.

discovery1 00:35 27/04/05

Originally Posted by AdrianII:
To bake the yellow cakes, do'h!

I laughed at that. What does that make me?

Cool link. Some friends of mine built a treb for Science Olympiad. They painted it peptoe pink.

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