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Ballista Jr
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Ballista Jr is Team Tormentum's first ballista, and first torsion machine. Construction started in 1999. It took us a very very long time to find all the parts that worked. We thought we'd build a medium size, cheap machine to experiment with, but we were wrong. After many failed attempts to twist up the rope without breaking everything, we eventually got a nice pair of metal rope holders (Modioli) made from channel and plate steel cut kindly cut to shape by my brother.
On Ballista Jr's final days before deconstruction, I snapped a few more close up pictures of its parts. Here are a couple
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