User talk:Clintron

Okay so

The thing(s) about the trebuchet: it's technically portable, but not especially so. We accidently poured something more like 300+ lbs of concrete for the counterweight as opposed to the planned 200. Aside from that, the thing bolts together, so it assembles or disassembles in about half an hour. Also I miscalculated the footage of lumber we needed, so the throwing arm's 2' shorter than anticipated. Nonetheless, I think we hit upon something in the last test: we need higher projectile mass for longer range, because the thing just snaps through its firing arc presently. oh and also we need to replace the axis with probably a piece of an old car's drive train because some genius physicist guessed that the stress placed on it wouldn't bend or break a steel pipe (hint the physicist in question might be randy)

Those caveats aside, I do wanna get this thing firing proper-like.

I replied, but it's over at my talk page, and I'm feeling lazy. --James. 01:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)