Of Scorpions & Sliders

[brennivs - tony drake]

It was over 10 years ago that the inswing model was showen to me by John after he made a few of the 3 span pieces, his mind wandered to the iron frame. The model showed the mechanics and geometry of the arms and bow string, which lead to the thought of the slider needed to go as it would not ballance out. Having a open frame means as you say the block can be made wider. From this John phoned me to say what he came up with and sent a drawen and asked for thoughts, which was then made and put on the machine. This solved a lot of the problems faced by slider machines jamming in wet weather, which we solved on our slider machine, as last weekend our machine was drenched, and we went out after and continued to fire. You are right there is more than one way to do the same job and throught the Empire some machine were probbely modifed by artillary men to make them work better :!: All in all our experience is that the machine needs fine tunning but when it fired it out preformed a machine that cleared 14 acres. It was no way near tentioned up. I still miss him very much as the other ideas he had on other matters, which I hope one day to continue
Keep up the good work and let your mind wander

Regards Brennivs