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Onager - First Components Delivered
#1
Salvete Omnes!

Well, finally we received our first Onager components from the workshop. A lot of grinding, polishing and finishing work to be done, but at least it's a start. Next we have the ratchet and frame to show. Check here:

http://www.romanarmy.ie/Onager%20project.htm
MARCVS VLPIVS NERVA (aka Martin McAree)

www.romanarmy.ie

Legion Ireland - Roman Military Society of Ireland
Legionis XX Valeria Victrix Cohors VIII

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#2
Your link doesn't work. :wink:

Edit: Now it does. Smile
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#3
Quote:Salvete Omnes!

Well, finally we received our first Onager components from the workshop. A lot of grinding, polishing and finishing work to be done, but at least it's a start. Next we have the ratchet and frame to show. Check here:

[url:3c30iksl]http://www.romanarmy.ie/Onager%20project.htm[/url]
Here it does work
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#4
or just go to their web site and choose 'Onager Project' :wink:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#5
Quote:Check here: http://www.romanarmy.ie/Onager%20project.htm
I'm disappointed you've gone for the classic Payne-Gallwey design. I'd love to see a full-sized De Reffye (as in [amazon]Greek and Roman Artillery 399 BC-AD 363[/amazon], plate G).
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#6
Is that the same as the Osprey or a totally new book Duncan?
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#7
Quote:Is that the same as the Osprey or a totally new book Duncan?

It's the osprey.
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#8
New publisher or what?

BTW Nerva, nicework, but just one question?

were the washers not tapered? those seem just a wee bit thin walled?
Could be the perspective tho'? :?
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#9
Well, regardless of the type of design chosen, I'm glad to see someone making a larger format onager. How much do you project this unit will weigh, and how do you intend to get it from your workshop to the firing line? Flat trailer?
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#10
Quote:New publisher or what?

As I click that link I'm forwarded to Amazon to buy an Osprey book.
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#11
Chhers! I didn't go that far, as have fun police in control.... :roll:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#12
Quote:Well, regardless of the type of design chosen, I'm glad to see someone making a larger format onager.
Don't know about larger format, David. An onager with a 6½" spring is a baby! Big Grin

I suggested -- all theory, of course -- that Ammianus Marcellinus' monster onager probably (okay, possibly) had a 50 cm (20") spring. Now that's an onager! I want to see someone build that one. :lol:
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#13
Yes, now that would be an ONAGER Confusedhock: 8)
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#14
Nice martin!!!I might call up sometime to have a look see..that and maybe get some gear!!
Out of sight of subject shores, we kept even our eyes free from the defilement of tyranny. We, the most distant dwellers upon earth, the last of the free, have been shielded till today by our very remoteness and by the obscurity in which it has shrouded our name.
Calgacus The Swordsman, Mons Grapius 84 AD.

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#15
Hi Duncan

I'm very disappointed you're disappointed Cry This is our first effort, and hopefully, from here we'll go on to bigger and better things. If you'd like to get involved in an actual building project, or even help out with future projects it would be most genuinely appreciated - I'm being very genuine and very serious here, I'd be very, very appreciative of any help from yourself Duncan:!:

GJC, you're quite correct, our washers are very crude. The originals would have been bronze cast and had a variable cross section. Circular at the top and elliptical at the bottom.

Right both Tom Feeley and Len Morgan are providing advice right now so hopefully we won't embarrass them too badly :oops:

By the way, why a 6" spring :?: Because that's all we can get into the back of our Tranist van :lol:
MARCVS VLPIVS NERVA (aka Martin McAree)

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Legion Ireland - Roman Military Society of Ireland
Legionis XX Valeria Victrix Cohors VIII

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