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Re: Working LEGO Clock Tower
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 3 Apr 2003 23:06:36 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Chris Phillips writes:
> The really tricky part (once I understood how to build a clock that would
> keep running) was to fit everything into the available space. And to keep
> rebuilding it every time the weight dragged it off my workbench...
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> - Chris.
Have you considered using one (or more) of the pullback motors as an
alternative power source to the weight on a string ? I believe the larger
pullbacks (32283) have a technic axle-hole for the take off.
Ray
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| (...) Yes. I tried the pull-back motor, but it could only run a lightly-geared clock for a very short time before it lost its oomph. I also tried stretching the white bungee cords >>theme music of Wile E. Coyote in the background<< over pulleys, but (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) As you might imagine, the gears are packed in there pretty tight. I built the tower from the outside in: I decided how large it could be before it would look out-of-scale and then I tried like crazy to fit four clock faces in there. This is (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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