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Re: Scissor Lift in LEGO?
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lugnet.technic
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Sun, 5 Mar 2006 20:48:47 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ross Crawford wrote:
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Haven’t actually built one, but one other possibility may be to use string
rather than gearing directly.
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On a winch? That’s an intriguing idea.
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How many scissors are there in your lift? On the real ones I’ve seen they
often have a hydraulic cylinder going from the bottom scissor to the top one,
you gain some mechanical adveantage doing it that way, but it may be
difficult to emulate in LEGO.
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Just one scissor.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Update: I ended up using string and it worked beautifully! Well, it has weight distribution issues (one side goes up before the other) but I'll work on that later... (18 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| (...) Haven't actually built one, but one other possibility may be to use string rather than gearing directly. How many scissors are there in your lift? On the real ones I've seen they often have a hydraulic cylinder going from the bottom scissor to (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-06, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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