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- Assembling the little ladder
- Attaching cheiroballistra fork and tenon to the slider
- Attaching field-frame bars and rings
- Attaching little ladder to the case
- Attaching pi-brackets to field-frame bars
- Attaching the bar to the cone
- Attaching the bar to the cone - method 2
- Attaching the handle to the slider
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- Fitting the little ladder tenons to field-frame pi-brackets
- Forces exerted by the field frames upon the little ladder and little arch
- Forging cheiroballistra trigger
- Forging field frame rings with an overlapping end
- Forging pi-brackets
- Forging quadrangular handle
- Forging rings using a horizontal ring forging template
- Forging T-clamps
- Forging the claw
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- Forging washers with a two-layer core and an integrated rim
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- Making a composite slider
- Making a field-frame location marker template
- Making a horizontal ring forging template
- Making a light-weight metal hoop
- Making a little arch fork forging template
- Making cheiroballistra fork and tenon
- Making Iriarte-style cheiroballistra handle
- Making pi-brackets
- Making rectangular pulling handle for cheiroballistra
- Making ring forging template from steel pipe
- Making round cheiroballistra handle
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- Making sliders
- Making steel field-frame rings
- Making steel field-frames bars
- Making steel hooks for arms
- Making steel washers
- Making T-clamps
- Making the cheiroballistra case
- Making the clip
- Making the crescent-shaped piece
- Making the crescent-shaped piece from a curved piece of wood
- Making the crescent-shaped piece from veneers strips
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- Making the fork
- Making the little arch
- Making the little ladder metal parts
- Making the metal hoop for the arm
- Making the stretcher
- Making tillered cones
- Making washer bars - method 2
- Making wedges using a circular saw
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- Marking the location of field-frame bar tenons to field-frame rings
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- Modifying locking pliers for clip usage
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- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Attaching the rungs
- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Case and slider finished, progress with field frames
- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Correcting bolt flight
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- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Elliptic tiller on arms
- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Final version of the arms?
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- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Little ladder tenons bent to more proper angle
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- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/New field-frames almost ready to go
- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/New little ladder, arch and washer rotation tool
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- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Replacement field-frames and bars for the arms
- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Replacement parts
- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Tale of amusing misfires
- User blog:Samuli.seppanen/Test shots with 14 dactyl cones
- Splitting wood for cones
- Stretcher usage