Lock and Load

Okay, so I've been on a real "bolt-action" kick recently. Not any particular gun, just the idea, the motion, of heaving a hand-sized pin towards you to ready a machine gun, or a smoking brass casing flying from your rifle as you throw the bolt handle back. It's a motion that, it's just so universally cool. So much so that I wan't to incorporate it into my stage elevator elevator design, even though I already have lever-actuated shear pins. It's not infeasible that I could rig a large bolt handle to control all four wagon brake handles. *sigh. I've hit a brick wall in my design, it's gotten very complicated very fast, and I don't know how to bring it all back to earth. Counterweights are tricky. If only I had some more space...
Oh, for the record, Emery kicks ass, and Allele also kicks ass. Can't get enough Emery. I'll run my whole Emery collection on Winamp in the background while I play a map on Age of Empires 2. Hey, at least it's not the original AOE.