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(...) Has anyone else tried building a LEGO launcher for this? I've tried using a 1:125 ganged gear train made with 3 40t gears and 3 8t gears (the final 8t gear being housed on the axle of the spinning toy), and just cranking at one end, but the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.build)
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"Mark Tarrabain" <markt@lynx.SPAMBLOCK.net> wrote in message news:HG800x.D34@lugnet.com... (...) kind of (...) fly! (...) As someone here mentioned; try using a wormgear. Put your outputaxel, the one with the 8t gears on a axel that goes half the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Alas. It doesn't work. The problem isn't slippage, the real problem is that the output axle actually *DOES* rapidly acquire the speed necessary to escape the launcher, but is not yet spinning fast enough to take real flight. What happens is (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.build)
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