alsask said:
I have been shooting crossbows for close to 30 years. Forget the compound cross bows
Too late...I've unstuck!
For weeks I thought the same, it didn't seem to work.
I made ideas one after another, for parts of the
crossbow, but they didn't fit together (too big, too long,
too heavy, one part makes the operation of the other
one impossible...I have details, but they are technical
and boring.) I wasted at least one notebook for drawings,
and terrible amount of time making a spreadsheet
model. I don't want to end up with a crossbow with
surprisingly low performance, just because I don't
know exactly, how it works.
Finally, I'm more or less certain about how
it should be done. The hardest part was to
find out the part what will be the trigger
and a smooth ratchet in one piece. (There were more.)
It's absolutely needed to be done in such way.
Now I'm happy, really!!!!
So after a starting over, I'm going to make
this anyway!
For you alsask, you may be right,
but I love this kind of science safari,
so don't ask me not to do that!
By the way, I think this thread has fulfilled
its purpose, there's nothing much more
to discuss about the original question.
After ready, videos about launching various
objects will be posted in a new thread.
Thank you!