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Re: Ideas for Lego Chipper?
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:12:47 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Nathan Bell wrote:
> As soon as my current projects are done, or maybe even sooner than that I wanted
> to design a Lego Chipper as a final project for a while. The problem is that
> Legos can't cut wood. I have thought about using store-bought razor blades for
> the cutting and don't know what to do for the chop block and the massive wheel
> the blades are mounted on. Chippers are an amazingly complicated piece of
> machinery as well as very dangerous. After the blade cuts the wood, the pieces
> go through a slot that is angled up and then there is a flat piece mounted
> behind the slot that chucks them up through the chute. To complicate that,
> there is a wheel that feeds the log into the blades that is hydraulically driven
> and regulated by a sensor that detects any major decrease in blade RPMs. I
> don't know the proper names of most of these parts, but I hope the reader is not
> confused to the point of pulling their hair out and screaming. Of course, that
> would still be less painful than going through a chipper! This design should
> probably be constructed in a way that does not dismember any fingers.
>
> Nathan
Sorry if I got carried away with the gory details in that last message.
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| (...) Correction: The wheel the blades are mounted on would not be Lego either. Based on the feedback the last post got, I sould probably make on that just shreads food such as long straight pretzels. All I really care about is that it can shread (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| As soon as my current projects are done, or maybe even sooner than that I wanted to design a Lego Chipper as a final project for a while. The problem is that Legos can't cut wood. I have thought about using store-bought razor blades for the cutting (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.technic)
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