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You'll Be Shooting Things to Diagon Alley If You Add Support Diagonally.

For all you Harry Potter fans... Sorry, I know, it was LAME...

Actually, don't listen to that title at all... you HAVE to add these supports or your trebuchet will die a very young death...

Just so you can see it a little closer up on this end.

Ok, you need to be careful with this part of the construction. As you saw in the picture on the previous page, the edge of these diagonal support arms need to be flush with the vertical support beams. As you can see in the above picture, you need to have the support arms actually on the edge of the main base support beams. The same goes for long and short support arms. I don't really need to tell you where they go since there is only one place that all of these criteria get met. If you need clarification, again, look at this good schematic will all the measurements you should need on it.

Sorry, I had to go inside, it was getting dark outside... Oh, and sorry for the filth that is my college apartment kitchen... Anyways, as you can see, all the supports are installed. One thing you may notice is that the "Left-Right" diagonal supports are also now installed. These, I believe could have been made longer and then, consequently, supported more near where the torque of the twisting throwing arm will be, but, I ran out of wood. This is the best I could do.

Also, You may have noticed that I started adding some twine around the joints. Really, this is cosmetic (to cover the screws) but I can't see why this wouldn't actually add more support...

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