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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 23:04:03 GMT
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Greg Kramer wrote in message ...
> 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?
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 lshaped pieced on the side can ride in the groove. If you
line both sides of the shaft with the portcullis grooves and put the
l-brackets on each corner top and bottom, it should work really well. To be
really stable, you would need 4 portcullis grooves per floor and 8 of the
l-brackets for the car. The l-brackets shouldn't be a problem but the
portcullis grooves might be if you want a really tall building or more than
1 elevator. The good news is the color of the grooved piece shouldn't
matter, since you shouldn't be able to see it from the outside anyway.
Matthew Verdier
"You can't just say you're King because some watery tart threw a sword at
you" Dennis, 700 AD
http://www.GeoCities.com/CapeCanaveral/2738/mjvlego.html
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