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How do you build an elevator?
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lugnet.build
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Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:17:07 GMT
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I've seen pictures of people's town buildings that have working elevators in
them, and I want to know how you got them to work. I don't want something
Technic or motorized. Just something that's minifig scale to fit into a
town building. I tried a simple prototype 4x4 elevator shaft with a door on
one side, with a solid 4x4x6 elevator car fitting in there exactly, but that
didn't work. The problems I ran into are:
1) The elevator car won't slide smoothly in the shaft. Because Lego
tolerances are so tight, I can't get a car to actually go down a shaft just
by gravity alone.
2) As the elevator gets pulled up toward each floor, the car catches on the
plate used for the floor above.
I'm not sure if those problems make sense as I've written them, but the real
question is: How Did You Guys Make Yours Work?
-Greg Kramer
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Message has 7 Replies:
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| Though it messes up your already nice measurements, try making your shaft 5x5 and put plates or tiles vertically on the outside of your 4x4 car so it doesn't flop back and forth so much. And/or try some rounded or sloped pieces on the roofplate of (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: How do you build an elevator?
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| (...) Greg, I suffered all those problems designing elevators. What works for me is: I build the elevator shaft larger than the base of the elevator (for a 4x6 elevator car, I build a 6x8 elevator shaft). Then, only in the corners of the elevator (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: How do you build an elevator?
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| Greg Kramer wrote in message ... (...) in (...) on (...) that (...) real (...) Here is an idea to try. If you can get a hold of a lot of slotted pieces used in castles for the portcullis to ride in, there might be a way. The 1x2 plate with an (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: How do you build an elevator?
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| I made a 6x4 car with Log Bricks. The top and bottom plates are the only real friction, and you get a cool 70's effect. I'm sure that could be eliminated with a clever design. KL (...) l (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: How do you build an elevator?
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| Greg Kramer wrote in message ... snip (...) real (...) I build an elevator based on an idea presented by another rtl-er (don't remember who): Build both shaft and cage 4x4, then use 4 corner roof pieces on top and 4 inverse corner roof pieces on (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: How do you build an elevator?
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| (...) This probably isn't very helpful, but the one time I wanted to make an elevator, I built the shaft, then lined the bottom of the shaft with colored trans 1x1 round plates. I attached 1x2 tiles w/ raised handle to the side of the shaft for (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: How do you build an elevator?
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| (...) Greg, What if you attached a cable to the top of the car, then looped it around a pulley at the top had it continue down the legnth of the shaft to another pulley at the bottom of the shaft then back up to the bottom of the car, making a sort (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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