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Re: How do you build an elevator?
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Date: 
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 02:32:52 GMT
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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

Greg Kramer wrote:

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
l



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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 (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)

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