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In lugnet.build, Leonard Hoffman asked:
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Right now I’m planning on building a large “science factual” spaceship with a
rotating centrifugal-gravity hab-ring. ... hints/suggestions/how-to for
powering the rotating section.
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Alas, the Technic toolkit has nothing in the way of planetary gears, or a means
to do coaxial shafts. But if you’re willing to do brick-modding, you could
carve out the center of a 48-tooth gear (so it can free-spin, but roughly); then
pin it to a beam (to provide a smooth edge) and thread the pair onto an axle,
which would be fixed to the ship’s nonrotating section. You could then drive
the 48-tooth with a spur gear (or several) run parallel to the spin-shaft.
(This is speculation.)
I’ve considered the same problem now and then, with regards to SF replicas: an
(unfinished) “2001’s” Discovery and an (unstarted) “Babylon 5” Omega-class
Destroyer. And Joe Meno wants to see some visually distinctive original designs
for microscale spaceships, so a similar problem applies; but with less weight.
The Discovery’s centrifuge can’t have an axle down the center -- the transfer
shaft is there. I was considering an arrangement of tires (bearing stand-ins)
rolling in a race built of 1x5x4 arches
and inverted arches.
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