Catapult issues with boulders

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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

Greetings Folks,

Just wanted to give you an update. We found our issues. We found that we were bending our frame with each shot. The anchor to our seat belt was bending towards the shooter and the cylinder mounds were bending the entire frame down significantly. We reinforced the frame with a 1/8" thick patch plate. That worked for a day. Then the shooter went back to it's old habits because that new plate bent as well. We decided to go the route of overkill. We went with a 1/4" Aluminum plate reinforced with 1/8" angle along the long axis of the plate. The shot now makes a satisfying "ting!" when we shoot. Roughly 100 shots and not bending. We have a consistent shot at the outworks now.

he's to hoping we come out of the gate shooting!

That's interesting and I'm glad you found a solution. However, I'm not sure how the bending of the frame only impacts new balls and not old balls. Any theories on that?