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

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