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Re: Drawbridge help needed!
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lugnet.build
Date: 
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:48:10 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Ross Crawford writes:
In lugnet.build, Pedro Silva writes:

The Hobart bridge looks close to what I'm trying to do. Is the concrete
block firmly connected to the bridge itself (ie, no relative motion is
possible between the two), or differently?

From the side it looks a bit like this:

+---+
|   |
|   | <- counterweight
|   |
+---+---+ <- hinge
|       |
\       |
\      |
--------------------------------- <- bridge deck

The sloped bit on the left is actually 1/4 circle, with teeth (curved rack),
which is used to move the bridge. This would be difficult with LEGO, but
could be donw with a lever or similar.

(You are so right, ASCII art is difficult to see in Lugnet with IE5!)

I think I got the idea. Curiously, I'm designing a garage door that
resembles this, but in a different position... :-)
There is a problem with this design, though: how will the deck tip be able
to move *up* without moving *forward*, and thus hitting the track on the
margin? So far, in all my attempts to do this train bridge I used the hinge
at the same level as the track. Can it be done differently, and work?


Pedro



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  Re: Drawbridge help needed!
 
(...) From the side it looks a bit like this: +---+ | | | | <- counterweight | | +---+---+ <- hinge | | \ | \ | ---...--- <- bridge deck The sloped bit on the left is actually 1/4 circle, with teeth (curved rack), which is used to move the bridge. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)

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