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Re: How do you build an elevator?
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lugnet.build
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Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:48:41 GMT
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edboxer@aol.&Spamcake&com
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Greg Kramer wrote:
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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:
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> 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.
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> 2) As the elevator gets pulled up toward each floor, the car catches on the
> plate used for the floor above.
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> 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?
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> -Greg Kramer
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 shaft, I build up using 1x2x5 studs. There is
much less chance of catching on connections as there is one only every 5
brick heights.
Secondly, it helps greatly to literally push the studs tightly against
the shaft walls to ease any friction.
This results in my elevators moving easily and freely.
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