ThingiverseCompliant Mechanism Crossbow
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To my knowledge this is the most powerful compliant mechanism gun/crossbow of its kind on the platform. The crossbow that this was remixed from only shot around 10 feet. Mark Rober and BYU's Compliant nerf gun only shoots around 2-3 feet. I got mine to shoot around 25 feet at the most, although after a few days of shooting it it didn't shoot as far, but since this is a very cheap print with very minimal print time it doesn't bother me too much as I had a lot of fun with it, and still will continue to have fun with a crossbow that now shoots only around 10-20 feet.
This is fairly strong, easily strong enough to go into an apple or a piece of cardboard.
The easiest way to load it is to take a piece of twine, double the piece of twine over and then loop that over the part which the trigger catches on and pull it back. I found that other ways either broke the beams or broke whatever I was using to pull it back (a piece of dental floss and a piece of twine not doubled over itself).
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