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Subject:	Re: Any ideas on how to do this with Technic?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers
Date:	Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:51:52 GMT
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"David Paule" <dpaule@diac.com> writes: > That strange, thick, white gear in the RIS slips with drag that > appears proportional to the rotation rate, so it's a dampener, which > is what you want. I may very well be wrong, but I don't think this will give the desired effect. The friction inside the gear is quite high when there is no motion, which may be a problem when the mechanism is triggered. And what's more, I don't think it will turn smoothly when the platform is falling downwards. My experience with the gear is that the friction is highly variable as the inner part of the gear turns. Fredrik

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		RE: Any ideas on how to do this with Technic?
If you want to vary the rate at which an object of constant weight moves, why not use a mechanism like an old postal scale. No, not the kind that shoots you when you look at it sideways... It involves a pendulum mounted so that when the object is at (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)

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		Re: Any ideas on how to do this with Technic?
(...) That strange, thick, white gear in the RIS slips with drag that appears proportional to the rotation rate, so it's a dampener, which is what you want. Dave Paule (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)

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