How to make bricks from Chinese sticks. How to make a crossbow at home: management, algorithm, tips

For the manufacture of homemade crossbow You will need:
* Barbed non-resinous wood rocks, size 700x10x40 mm.
* Second sheet springs car Moskvich.
* Profile pipe 50x50x2 mm. 10 cm long.
* Profile pipe 15x15x1.5 mm.
* A small segment of a 2 millimeter sheet metal.
* Metal stainless steel 4 mm thick. and 0.5-1 mm. (for trigger).
* Steel corner 50x50x4 mm. 35 cm long.
* Rod d \u003d 8 mm. 40 cm long.
* Bolts with nuts d \u003d 8
* Stainless steel molding with VAZ-2106 doors 2 pcs.
* Metal rollers 2 pcs., Lifting the glass mechanism from the door of the car VAZ.
* Cable d \u003d 3 mm. 3 m long, two loops end.
* Epoxy resin, wood medilion, wood varnish for outdoor work.
* Two small springs (stretching).
* Dozen nails for rubberoid, one nail two hundred, tube d \u003d 6 mm., Small washers.

Tools will use the following:
*Welding machine.
* Circular hand saw.
* Electric drill with revolutions adjustment, carbide drills for metal d \u003d 3, 5, 8, 10 mm.
* Bulgarian, cutting discs for metal, grinding discs on wood.
* Keys, Passatia, screwdriver, vice, narrow chisel, knife.
* Fire, sandpaper.
* Protective glasses.

Item 1. Production of bed.

Take a well-dried wooden bar, I had from a birch, sketching my bed sketch on it. The size of the butt is done for themselves (under your height), and the box depending on the length of the arrows that you will use. I use the arrows of 440 mm, but I had to save on the butt, left only 300 mm, and the total length turned out to be 740 mm, did not risk anymore.


Having drawn the markup to the selection of the guide, for the plumage of the boom, the width is 5 mm, the depth is 10 mm.

Using a circular saw, we cut the grooves for the entire length to the end of the trigger (lock).



It should turn out something like this.

Using a drill d \u003d 12 mm. We choose the cavity under the trigger, flatter the ledges of the chisel and the knife. We drill a hole under the trigger, we melt the chisel and a knife.

Item 2. Manufacture of a lock or trigger.

As the basis of the castle, take the type of "nut". So that nothing rust, we will use a stainless steel, take a sheet with a thickness of 4-5 mm, if you fail to find such, make a set of several sheets glued together and taken on rivets. Blacks in the form of parts on metal.



With the help of a cutting disk and a grinder, cutting on the markup of the workpiece.

In the center of the "Out" we drift a hole under the rotation axis d \u003d 6 mm.

We proceed all sides with a file.

Grinding emery paper, achieving a completely smooth surface.

It should turn out something like that.

Pull the remaining elements of the castle, whispered.

The trigger lengthening with two thin stainless steel sheets, fixing on homemade rivets.

On a sharpening machine we achieve necessary form blanks.

From the thin sheet of metal we make the case of the trigger mechanism.

We drill in the body whispered three holes d \u003d 2.5 mm, one for the axis of the attachment and two under the fastening of the springs.



Attach the spring smoking spring spring.



Let's look at the table as the details in the corded state become.

And as after a shot.

We apply one sidewall of the case on the inside of the mechanism and drill at the place of the hole under all axis.

From the nail of two hundred, with a diameter of 6 mm, we will make the axis for the "walnut".

We scream with the sharp end of the nail.

We measure the length of the future axis, we spawn.



From thin nails for rubberoid, we will make the remaining axis rivets. Bulgarian delete foals on nails hats.

Now they will adhere to the body.

We will install whisper on the axis in the case, we use intermediate washers.



We cut off the excess length of the nail, leaving 1 mm. On both sides for the rolling.

Using anvil, rolling the hammer end of the axis.

Drills the hole under the axis with a strut, whispered sprout for fastening.

From the appropriate tube, scold a spacer sleeve on this axis.

We move towards one side of the housing.

We install the axis, the sleeve and engage in the spring.

We collect half the hull together.

We pump up extra long, leave the protrusion of 1 mm. Under the hammer.

Rolling.

Now you can put the largest axis-rivet castle. We combine holes.

Take the previously measured and scaled axis d \u003d 6 mm., Immediately we will immediately begin the hammer on the one hand.

Install in place.

And also rolling, the main thing is not to rearrange, so that the movable mechanism does not appear inside.

Item 3. Installing the lock mechanism in the bed.



If something interferes well to sit down in place the castle, we are refined by the chisel or knife. After installation, check how the trigger goes.

If everything is fine, you can drill holes for fastening screws and tighten them into place.





Now we need to decorate with the door of the VAZ-2006, they are from stainless steel, too, which is very good. To give them additional stiffness, epoxy resin was flooded inward.

After complete hardening, after a day, we will be drilled in each four holes d \u003d 3 mm., For fastening screws.

Making tripers for the heads of self-tapping screws so that the rovers do not engage when it will slide it.

Small emery paper polished hole outlets to remove all sowers that damage the cable.

Finished guides set on the bed.

Monitor the screws do not pass through thin places.

We check the lock to go without hooks about guides.



Paragraph 5. Production of an arc or shoulders.

From the same donor doors, remove with the help of a grinder, the rollers of the glass raising mechanism.

Of these, we will make blocks on the shoulders, and the arc itself from the second sheet of springs, the old car Moskvich.

We produce pads, for fastening the springs to the lie.
To do this, out of the corner 50x50 mm. He drunk composite elements to collect with welding, such a mount (block).

We treat weld seams with a grinder. Drill the mounting holes d \u003d 10 mm. under the bolts.

By ready sample And the size of the resulting pads, we make grooves for fastening in the bed. We are trying to land, we achieve a tight navigation and fastening. According to the estimated position of the future theater, we plan and make a cross-cutting groove in the sidewall bed, 70 mm long. 10 mm width, the lower tenants will go here.

Bend and weld the bracket for the leg (stirring).



Ears for blocks.
From the profile pipe 50x50 we will make eye for fastening the rollers-blocks to the arc (springs).

The most difficult thing in the manufacture of an arc itself from the springs at home is to drill holes. It is necessary to drill a drill on low revs so that the drill is not burning, constantly apply water. If possible, drill the drills of different diameters, from thin to a thick with a step of 0.5-1 mm., Constantly sharpen the tool.

Fresh braces for short M8 bolts, stake hats.

The refrigera to the block is fed by two M8 bolts with subsequent small welding along the edge of the mount.





Now we need to open the bed with a lacquer and dry.
We establish a block with an arc on the bed, sedentible with a hammer for a tight landing of a metal tree.

We insert and tighten the bolts on the M8.



From the long bolts M10 we will make a reduced length with a short thread bolt-axis under blocks.

Anchor will take the tube and make spacers for the axes of blocks from it.

Drill in the ears of the hole d \u003d 10 mm. To install blocks. We install hard tips of the loop on the cable.

Install the block with a cable on one side of the shoulder. The nut does not delay much so that the roller does not pinch.

In the nut and bolt we drill the hole under the heel.



We set the stud and press it with a nut in the direction of unscrewing.



Wake up the cable through the hole of the bed and do the same with the installation of the roller on the other side of the shoulder.

Paragraph 6. Top part Castle.

From the profile pipe 15x15 mm. We pump up two segments of 120 mm. From the sheet metal weeping with a grinder of two (g) shaped blanks, one rectangular plate (on the top) and a triangle (on the back).

We combine all the details together, we clean the welding seams with a grinding disk so that it would be a solid detail.

From the old folding steel meter, make the elastic boom holder.

The photo shows the reiki fastening bolts under an optical sight.

Also, the only bolts at the same time pushed the arrows holder.

The rack of the sight (swallow tail) from the same sheet metal is 2 mm., With rapid sides for fastening optics.

The square lattice on the optics rack is visible to lift the back and thereby tilted the sight, for the correct targeting on the target further 25 m.

We install the lock bracket on the bed and drill holes for fastening, screws and bolt M6.



We spin small screws so that they do not enter the boom plumage channel.

Tighten the tapping screw.

Additionally, we serve the hole and install the last bolt.







Install an optical sight.







A copy of an ancient crossbow is a very interesting thing as in terms of external viewand when shooting it. Now let's talk how to make a crossbow at home so that he really looks like an ancient weapon. Nowadays, there are many modern crossbows, but their cost is quite high, and I want to hang on the wall in the bedroom there is a valid copy of the ancient crossbow.

Now step by step will look what is necessary to create wooden Arbalet. From the tools you need a little.

  1. Well deposited knife.
  2. Drill.
  3. Metal hacksaw.

Preparation of material, or how to make a tree crossbow

In order for the product to look and shoot, as a real weapon, it is necessary to make it from suitable wood:

  1. Poplar.
  2. Ash.
  3. Pines.
  4. Oak.
  5. Clean.
  6. Acacia.

These trees are perfect.

Crossow consists of the main two parts - onions and beds. If we make a weapon with a capacity of up to 20 kilograms, for onions you need to find a smooth branch with a thickness of five centimeters, and a length - meter. If the globe is planned more than 20 kilograms, it is better to take a blank with a thickness of 10 centimeters and a meter length. For bodies, choose a branch, a diameter of a bit thick of the billet for onions. If there is a bitch on the sawing material, in no case cannot be completely cut. It is worth just to shorten them so that the length is from three to five centimeters. If you cut the bitch completely, they will immediately crack, and the billet will be retained.

Drying of the harvested tree

Before making the crossbow with your own hands, you need to provide a gradual drying material. To do this, you need to smear the sleeper with varnish so that through them moisture did not go too fast. Slices on the bitch are also smeared. If this is not done, then due to the rapid evaporation, the tree cracks, and this is undesirable. After that, the workpiece should lie from a month in a dry and dark place. The longer the tree will dry, the better.

Primary treatment

Material is ready, we can proceed. Let's start from Luka. We inspect the annual rings of the tree. Where they are thinner, the north side, here it is necessary for us. In this place the structure of the material is much more dense. Now you need to cut the blank in half and for the product to take the north side. After everything is done, the tree needs to give a week to lie down so that the rest of the moisture come out.

Making onions Arbalet

We begin the manufacture of onions, in the process of which we will see the structure of the tree and find out how to make a crossbow at home through ancient technologies. So let's get to begin, you need to cut the layers of wood where its core is present. If you leave it, that is, the risk that longitudinal cracks will go. After measuring the middle of the bow and begin to cut the extra material, manufacturing onions. When processing, it is necessary to ensure that its shoulders are the same. All the time check for bending. As soon as the shoulders start at least a little bending, you need to make a trial.

Trial advancement is a solid rope, on which one side one loop, and on the other - several, located at different distances. They are needed in order to measure the bending of the shoulders of the bow. The larger the material is cut, the stronger they can be bent, while changing the loops to the close. Tensioning the trial theater is constantly, easy to track, whether the bend is even after the onion processing. After all, if you look only visually, you can make a lot. The density of the tree is not the same in all places, so it seems to be an ideal onion may be uneven. Sometimes it happens that the thick plot is weak place, and more subtle, on the contrary, does not bend. To not be mistaken, you need to constantly check the onions. After examining all the nuances, you can make a working copy, realizing how to make the crossbow with your own hands, and completely display the power and beauty ancient weapons.

Manufacture of Arbalete Lodge

In front of the bed, it is necessary to cut the recess of the centimeter two, where the bow will be located. After noting 30 cm from the edge, there will be a valuation and arrow on this surface. Align this plane if there is bends or breech on it. After you need to measure the place for a thickness of 1 cm thick and a depth of 0.5 cm, then cut the holes under the bow and the trigger. It is better to do the chisel or joinery cutter, and in detail to understand how to make a crossbow, drawings to help.

Trigger

Take the simplest hook, called nut. This is a cylinder that freely rotates on the axis. On the one hand, his hooks for the taper, on the other - the stop for the M-shaped jug. If the crossbow is up to 30 kg of tension, the descent may be wooden. However, if the power is more, it is necessary to make it metallic.

Making a theater

You need to take the board and insert the pegs with a thickness of 1 cm. They must perform 3 cm. The field of which from one to another we wake up a kapron thread in a circle. When the thickness of all threads are about 5 mm, it is necessary, without removing from the pegs, it is over a circle in a circle that all the threads are tightly cluttered. After that, near the kolyka we collect two half the tents and again wrap, but is already much denser, until the next cavoge. So, we will have a string with two loops. Everyone understand will help the scheme how to make a crossbow. It is extremely clear on it.

We collect crossbow and stretch the tutor

First you need to climb onions, then mount the trigger, after that we pull the theater. Just do not pull it, so you need to use the trial. Next you need to pull the crossbow. When the onions bent, inspired by a combat tutor. After that the trial is removed. Everything, the ancient weapon is ready. Here's how to make a crossbow at home, using only the simplest tools.

Making Toy Mini Cross

For entertainment at home with children or to explore with friends, you can make a mini-crossing of girlfriend. What will you need:

  1. Two wooden skewers.
  2. Joiner cutter or knife.
  3. Scotch.
  4. Wooden clothespin.
  5. Strapboard.

Scheme, or how to make a mini crown from what can be easily found at home

  1. Take wooden skewers and cut sharp ends from them. After that we associate them together at the edges. It will be bow bows.
  2. Take a stroke, we note on it two segments, equal to the length of the bow of our miniature weapons. After cutting off these two parts and connect together with the help of the scotch. This is a globe bed. Pick up with a scotch tape onions.
  3. After that, we stretch on the crossbow the tutor.
  4. Tighten it and look at what distance to install the hook. They will serve the clothespin, or rather, its spring and one half of the wooden part.
  5. On the bed of the crossbow, we cut the necessary grooves so that it becomes instead of the missing part of the clothespins. We collect our hook.
  6. The crossbow is ready, press on top of the clothespin, thereby squeezing it, stretch the theater with the arrow and clamp. For a shot, press on top.

We understood how to make a mini-cross, and now you can go further and create weapons from pencils.

Create an arbelt of pencils

To do this, take:

  1. Four pencils.
  2. Seven gum.
  3. Case from ballpoint pen.
  4. Scotch.

Let's proceed?

  1. First you need to take pictures and connect them two together. You can use rubber bands or scotch. It will be a bow and a globe.
  2. In the front of the bed, we take the bottom of the bow.
  3. Top on the bed is primed by a tape case from the handle, it will be a guide for an arrow. It can be made from the rod of the same handle.
  4. Now we put on the ends of the onions on one elastic band, and the edges associate them with threads or scotch, so that one whole age is. Now we capture the tutor with the nested arrow, we run it into the guide from the handle housing and let go.

That's how to make an arbulence, from pencils, which perfectly shoots.

We will proceed to create a paper crossbow

This requires:

  1. Sheets A4 - 9 pieces.
  2. Sticks from popsicle - 4 pieces.
  3. Scotch.
  4. Durable carsional thread.

How to make a globe from paper that will shoot pencils?

  1. Put in front of you three sheets of paper longitudinally. Benefit from left to right. From the line of bend cut in half. It turns out six sheets whose width is 10.5 cm, and the length is 29.7 cm. We divide them into two bugs of three sheets.
  2. With the help of a pencil twist one, and then the second stack of sheets in the tube. The length of them should turn out to be 10.5 cm, and the diameter is a bit thick of the pencil. So that they are not spinning, Krepim Scotch.
  3. We insert into one end tubes on a stick from the popsome to a third of their lengths. The protruding part is laid down. From a free side, we insert the whole wand from the popsicle also by a third. This is the shoulders of Luke. Now you need to bend them in the center of paper tubes in half.
  4. We take another five sheets of paper, twist them with a pencil, it will be a globe.
  5. To the resulting tube in front, we primar the shoulders of the bow. It is necessary to evenly climb the front line of the product. Here's how to make a crossbow at home from paper. Now he needs a height, trigger and guide.
  6. We bind a thread to the shoulders of the bow and stretch to understand where the hook will be. Deciding, cut through this place the bed through. After cutting off a piece of sticks in a size of 3-4 cm and insert into the hole so that it performed on top of 5 mm, and it was a church from below.
  7. And the last touch. We make a tube length of 3 cm so that a pencil is free to go into it, and we take a scotch in front of the crossbow above it. This is a guide for stele. Everything, now you can pull the tent, insert into the guide, for example, a pencil and shoot.

Here we looked at the creation of a copy of the ancient crossbow. However, it was also interesting to create throwing weapons From the girlfriend, as they say: on the knees. From paper, even showed how to make a crossbow from pencils, and mini-weapon, which came out rather powerful as for its size. So it is worth looking at the world wider and always improvise, only so you can seek excellent results in matters worthy of admiration for those surrounding people.

Make the Crossbow with your own hands, you will not regret!

Now it has become fashionable to hunt onions and crossbow. Although in our country it is forbidden, but still you can shoot targets, practicing in this hard matter. You can make a crossbow with your own hands at home for training. After all good models from famous firms are very expensive. And can be done "for itself." It is worth remembering that if the weapon is with a tension of more than 20 kg, then it is considered to be cold weapons. Therefore, when creating a crossbow, it is worth considering this important nuance.

There are classic models, they look like ancient, and their design is simple. There are also exist modern crossbowsThey are called "block". Such a weapon has more complex design Due to blocks and other innovations that enhance its power. A similar crossbow at home will be made much more complicated, but the description of this process and the drawings that will be detailed in the article will help you.

Crosset has a lot of component parts:

    trigger;

  • in some modern models There are blocks at the ends of the bow.

What makes a crossbow

The main material from which the Crosset is made is a tree. Out of it makes beds and onions. The trigger in powerful samples is pulled out from iron. And those in which the strength of the tension is less than 20 kg can be made of solid wood, it will fully endure. Also for onions use spring metal and various composites.

Orange tree crossbow

To begin with, let's look at how easy it is to make the crossbow with your own hands, and start with a simple item. This is the standard design of ancient weapon, and it can be used not only for firing, but also as a spectacular object of the interior, hanging on the wall.

What a tree use

To create a crossbow you need to choose:

All these breeds are sufficiently dense to withstand huge loads that will affect the bow and bed of the crossbow.

Preparation of material

For the weapon to shoot for a long time and powerful, its material must be properly dried during the year. Cutting the necessary barrel or branch, both sleeps need to be painted. To do this, you can use any glue, paint or varnish. If you close in this way, the sleeve will not be able to quickly get out of the workpiece, so the wood will dry slower and evenly. So in the material is not formed internal cracks, and the made crossbow with your own hands at home will serve for a very long time.

After that, it is put in a dry place, where the sun's rays will not fall on it. So it should go the year. After time, with the workpiece, you remove the bark, so it will dry out a week. Then it is covered in half. So it lies another week, only after that you can start creating a crossbow.

Crossing Tools

  • Emery paper of different grain.

    Joinery cutter.

    Chisel.

Making Luk.

On the workpiece choose the side in which the annual rings of the tree thinner. This is the northern side, the fibers on it is more dense than in other parts. It is precisely it and we will use, creating a crossbow with your own hands at home. From this part you need to make onions.

We are planned in the middle, from her in both directions are postponed by about two centimeters, placing a part that grows in the bed of the cross. It will be the thickest place of Luke. From it begin to cut the material, moving gradually to the edges. Fit the workpiece gradually on both sides, while checking until it does not begin to bend.

After that, you need to take a strong rope, make a loop at its ends. This will be a trial. It is necessary for checking onion tension. It is very important that his shoulders be thickened evenly. Nadev an improvised theater and stretching onions, you can see in which places to remove the material. They are noted, carefully cut off with a knife. It is necessary to continue until the product begins evenly on both sides.

Processing Suchkov

Very often on the material there are bits: some are visible immediately, others can open in the process of processing the material. What they are dangerous, so this is because the chips may form because of them. Therefore, you need to process such places well sharpened knife. If there is no confidence or experience, it is better to tinker a little longer and stabbing their sandpaper. Also for this purpose you can use a file.

Bed

When the bow is ready, it is postponed and proceed to the manufacture of a bed. To begin with, they choose where it will be a bile, which will fly out the arrow, make this place perfectly smooth. It is from him that will depend on how much the crossbow will shoot. To understand everything, it is better to watch the crown drawing. How to make it a bed, here is shown in detail. After that, it is cut on the need for the required length. It is usually about 30 cm. Then make a recess for the bow and the trigger. It is convenient to cut it with a chisel and a joinery knife.

Trigger

As mentioned above, it can be made of a dense tree or if the crossbow is powerful, made of metal. The most is the so-called "nut". It consists of a cylinder, where on the one hand - a tap for the taper, and on the other - the stop for the jurka. In powerful crossbows, the descent is more advanced for a more easy press on the trigger when loading.

We examined in detail, the master class with drawings, we hope will help to understand all subtleties.

This is a common medieval model. Now we learn how to make the same weapon, only a modern model.

Block Arbalet

Such a device is made much more complicated, it will take much more tools for it than for the usual one. So, create a crossbow with your own hands at home from fiberglass. This material is ideal for the manufacture of Luke, because the preoccupative and easily light. It can be cut from a solid piece of fiberglass with a thickness of 1 cm or make it yourself. If not too lazy to tinker, it is better to make yourself.

Making fiberglass shoulders for crossbow

You need to take fiberglass or kevlar and cut into strips. They need from 30 to 40. In general, it is better to try everything experienced. These strips are punctured by epoxy resin so that everything is monolith during frozen. You also need to think about how this "sandwich" is put under the press. It is best to use the boards between which to put the shoulders, clamp all the clamps.

There should be less thickener than usual, ranging from 8 to 10%. Everything freezes in 24 hours, but if it is cold in the room, time may increase. When everything froze, the shoulders are modified by cutting sticking edges with a knife and grinding sandpaper.

Now we will analyze in detail how to make a crossbow with your own hands at home and what additional elements of its design should be made.

Make a figured bed

To do this, you need to take a board with a thickness of at least 4 cm. Fall, where it will be butt, handle, trigger and fastening for the shoulders of the bow. In general, everything according to the drawings. After that you need to drill all the necessary holes and cut.

Blocks

They can be made of aluminum. Better so that they are on the bearings. Perfectly fit midnings from wheels for roller skates. They are strong enough to withstand strong loads, besides, their size is ideal. The axes are needed in 5 mm thick. You can take them from the rollers or make yourself.

Fastenings are made of sheet steel or similar durable material. You can still before filling the epoxy resin of the shoulders of the bow to make their ends thicker, to install blocks, in this case the attachment will not be needed.

After that, it is necessary to install a trigger with a curcken and an arrow to make the manufactured crossbow. In general, all parts are connected by bolts, piles are used. They will allow to twist everything tightly, without damaging the material.

In block crossbows, the string is longer and stretched differently. It seems to be crossed out, and during the tight, this system allows you to give the arrows twice as much energy on the flight than in the case of a conventional crossbow with the same onion.

In powerful block models, only it is able to withstand a huge sharp pressure when shot. In crossbow, whose power is not more than 40-50 kg, it can be soiled from the heading threads.

We make a tutor for crossbow

The method described can be drawn both for recursive and classic crossbow. Just the length of them will be different due to the features in the designs of both models.

Take the board of the planned theater, drive two cavals, on which the thickness of this long oval becomes 5 mm, is wrapped, making the gap between the twins in 2-3 mm. Near the pegs need to be pulled out without gaps, because there will be a hinge for a hook.

Regarding the guards, it is possible to say that if you make it too thick, then the force of the crossbow decreases. However, thin can break. So in this matter you need to choose an intermediate thickness. It is better to explore such sports models with the same tension and make the tent of their thickness. When this is done, two halves are connected and wrapped together. Again, near the loops need special care. Then wrap the middle, where the string will take and push the arrow. This place is also doing carefully, because the force of friction of great power will be addressed. All cropped edges of the threads need to be linked with glue. This will make them more dense and monolithic.

This article presents drawings and a description of how to make a real crossbow at home. It is not so difficult, especially if you make a wooden weapon. If the product is produced for hunting to achieve great power, then you should choose a block model. Its design is a bit more complicated, you may need a machine for making some details.

Another twenty years ago, a bow or crossbow for individual use did not exist in nature. Some eccentrics and fanatics of historical reconstructions were taken for their manufacture of their own fear and risk, absolutely not imagining what they would receive in the end. And all because a few tens of thousands of years, the process of accumulating experience and extinguishing skills in the manufacture and use of throwing weapons in our time was once interrupted and devoted to Anathema.

Now all these rare knowledge got out of dusty chests, learned to make bows and crossbows using modern technologies, and the army of the followers of Wilhelm Telly and Robin Hood grows at the speed of geometric progression. And today we have prepared drawings and schemes for you, which will tell how to make a crossbow at home.

Despite the abundance of online stores selling throwing weapons, as well as fantastic in the breadth of the range of products, there are many wishing to make an arbulence on their own. Most of them do not know where to start. Today we will tell you about the main constructive features Crossbow. These knowledge will help you avoid mistakes in the manufacture, as well as disappointments and injuries when using it.

Before starting work, you should know two main points.

  1. In our country Crossbow is Entertainment and sports weapon. Hunting with him is prohibited. Any throwing weapon with a tension force of more than 43 kilograms is considered to be combat, the right to use which give permits of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
  2. Arbelt is construction experiencing colossal loads during operation. Therefore, any carelessness in its manufacture is most likely leading to injury. Any detail should have a multiple margin of safety.

So let's find out how to make a simple crossbow at home.

The video below will tell how to make an arbelt at home:

Onion

The source of the energy of the crossbow is the bow - the elastic plate of the complex shape having one main bend and, as an option, two additional at the ends. It is necessary to start making a crossbow with this detail and customized under it everything else is the choice of the tension type (recursive or block), the size of the lodge, the type of trigger mechanism.

Tree and composite

Is an acute question that use as a layer material: wood, composite or metal?

  • Wood - The most incorrect choice. Available "Dores", lying under your feet, is a rubbish, suitable only on the crossing of the furnaces. Branches, cut down in the forest, as drying, lose elasticity, crack and fall apart. From this material you can make only something for short-term entertainment in the country. From models sold in stores, and having a tree, very popular as well as.
  • Composite, created from fiberglass and epoxy binder, is very tempting and outwardly simple. But there is an obstacle - the need to scrupulously accurately comply with the technology of all works. Proportions of the mixture, drying, excerpts. At home, it is almost impossible.

Metal

One non-alternative option remains metal. If you have an old "Moskvich" at hand with a set of leaf springs, then consider what you are lucky. One sheet is taken from the entire package - the second. If you are not too frightened by dimensions, then the first will fit. Moreover, it has at the ends of the tube - almost the finished bracket for fastening blocks or the guards.

For fastening onion to the bed, a shoe is used. This is a p-shaped design, clamping a lie in front. It can be welded to a leaf of springs tightly, but in this case, with bending of the bow, the welds will be experiencing excessive tension on the gap. Therefore, it is better to fasten the ball support from the VAZ 2108 on the block. On the pin and the onions are attached. It is also convenient because there is a hole on the springs.

If you are very strong, then you can stay on the recursive method of tensioning the teta (as in, etc.). But it is better to choose a block (both in models, etc.). For fastening blocks in Luke, if you have chosen the second spring sheet, you need to fix the brackets at its ends. Bolted (and even better riveting) compound preferably welding, since this node is experiencing strong vibration loads. As a pulley, use the details of the mechanism of raising glass of the same "Moskvich".

Regarding the guise, the obvious solution is suggested: a thin metal cable. But it is not quite correct, since the steel cables are poorly withstanding the load variables. It is better to choose a climb replica with a diameter of 5-8 mm.

Having made onions and securing on it the theater, you can carry out the bending tests. Excellent if you have a kilogram dynamometer for 100-150. As a result, you will learn two parameters necessary for further work: the length of the latter and the load.

How to make a lie to a powerful crossbow at home, read below.

Lodge

For this detail of the homemade crossbow tree - a non-alternate version. But not everyone. In any case, not aspen, alder, spruce or pine. Better beech, Elm, Oak. The billet dried over twenty years. It is clear that you have anything else and never find. Therefore, use the moisture-resistant phanener with a thickness of 7-9 mm. 3 or 5 lodge contours are cut out of it, and then glue this package with epoxy resin. Not very beautiful, but extremely reliable.

  • Regarding the form - give up the semi-trap, use the direct English lie. It is not only easier to manufacture, but also stronger.
  • When assembling the lodge package it is necessary to take into account the progress of the taper, and the load. The first determines the distance from the pad to the groove for the trigger. The second is the thickness of the walls of the lodge at the place of its attachment. It is the direct English bed that will allow you to avoid unnecessary thinning when moving from Zevya to the go.
  • The most important detail of the crossbow lodge is the arrows guide. It should be smooth and durable. For her, it is possible to use plates framing the side windows "Moskvich", furniture accessories, other similar details.
  • If you use a block tension type of the tension, then in the Tsevier under the guide there must be a groove for the cable system. This is another element, weakening the lodge, so refuse the thought to make the Tsevier elegant. High protect your fingers from hitting the tag and traumatic amputation phalange.

Typically, crossbows have plastic lies, such as models, and others.

On how to make a homemade trigger for crossbow at home, we will tell below.

About how to make a crown of wood (plywood) with their own hands, will tell this video:

Trigger

If you are not a sixth discharge, then give up the thought of making this item yourself. Attach the effort and find the USM from any spring piston pneumatic rifle. In the most difficult case, you will only need to finalize his tooth holding a piston - it may be a little for a tolstoy.

Over the trigger, the casing is arranged with a height of 2 to 5 cm, necessary in order to protect it from moisture and dirt, as well as being the base for the aiming devices - planks under optics or the whole. Planks of Vaver, Picatinni or Swallow Tails can be bought in any online store selling pneumatics.

The front of the casing over the trigger is performed in the form of a long (no more than 10 cm) of the elastic "tail", which the rear of the boom is held on the guide.

Making arr.

Canonically correct ammunition for crossbow called "bolt". But many online stores trade with arbalt arrows. For crossbows having a rifle lodge, approach a length of 14, 16, 20, 22 inches. If you are absolutely frank, then it's better to find shopping arrows. Unfortunately, the cheaper of 150 rubles none of them is worth it. Therefore, it is worth trying to make them yourself.

You can make them from wood, straight, without bitch. As an option - use details of furniture - balusters from chairs, railing of cribs. Good arrows are obtained from aluminum tubes with a diameter of up to 2 cm. If you wish, you can even use the electrodes of the maximum diameter, but they are hopelessly bent when it is hung and it is difficult to fasten the plumage to them.

For the plumage is used thin plastic. Natural bird feathers can give an unexpected effect of chaotic change in the direction of flight, as they have natural bends that need to be considered.

The main condition for good, smooth flight is balancing. The center of gravity at the arbal bolt must be after the first third of the length of the tip. If it is not metallic, then the end of the boom can be loaded with lead wire, wrapped around the string.

To the issue of the arrow, the tip should be treated without fanaticism. To sharpen the metal on the lathes, milling and polishing, giving exquisite forms - these operations are available to a little. In addition, this tip is extremely dangerous. If you do not need to pierce knight armor, then a wooden bolt can be simply sharpened at an angle of 30 degrees using a conventional knife.

About how to make an arbelt itself, which shoots, with his own hands from paper, pencils and other materials, let's later tell.

Cool shooters

Shooting with toothpicks or matches can be made of wooden clothespins. To do this, disassemble it and remake:

  1. the narrow groove for the spring of one half expand to 1 cm, to the second, do the same, but with an indent to 1 cm;
  2. at the front ends of both halves, from the side of narrow grooves for the spring, make a longitudinal flow of 1-2 mm depth;
  3. collect half the clothespins "inside out", twisting them with thread;
  4. install the spree of the cloves of the legs into the cutting grooves, and the spiral outward;
  5. install the toothpick into the hole between the halves;
  6. click on the spiral springs by shifting it into a semicircular cut;

Spring's foot will slip along the long slot, it clicks on the toothpick and makes it fly away.

On how to make a mini-crossing of pencils with your own hands at home, look in the video below.