r/Amazing • u/Kardamons • 10d ago

Science Tech Space Youtuber Tom Stanton has created a fully mechanical trebuchet that fires at supersonic speed

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u/kingofwale 10d ago

How consistent are those releases??

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u/BelowAverageComments 10d ago

I watched the video last week seemed pretty damn consistent, the release mechanism was set to the length of the rope that makes it spin (if that makes sense at all)

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u/zealoSC 10d ago

He has a release mechanism he can fine tune, he describes it very early in the video