Subject:
|
Re: Any tips for building tall towers?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.build
|
Date:
|
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 06:59:09 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1249 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.build, Joe Strout wrote:
> I'm working on a module for the Great Ball Contraption, but this involves having
> a lot of stuff elevated way up off the plate. At the same time, I don't have a
> ton of bricks -- I'm a newbie to the AFOL world.
>
> So, I need to build some supporting towers that are tall and strong, with a
> minimum number of bricks. I will experiment with the obvious ideas of course,
> but I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this problem and has any special
> advice to share.
>
> Thanks,
> - Joe
I've always wondered about building a tower using just 4 2X4 bricks per level
arranged in a way that there's a 2X2 opening in the center that would serve as a
shaft as you go upward. Once the tower reaches its final height, top it off
with a 2X6 brick with a adequately attached cable / wire centered from it's
underside and run that cable down through the 2X2 shaft and through a hole in
the plate and affix it someway to a turnbuckle to post-tension the tower to
further eliminate sway. It would help if the plate is on a piece of 3/4 inch
board. There would have to be further space under this plywood to facilitate
the mechanics of this turnbuckle and the abilty to tighten it.
I would try to use the largest bricks possible. You could connect your towers
together where possible by cross bracing them. Since I like to build suspension
bridges, I wouldn't rule out guy wires like that used in those tall slender
transmission towers.
Still yet there's mass-tuned dampners in the real world. Something you can
google.
-Patrick
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Any tips for building tall towers?
|
| (...) ... (...) ... While not exactly what Patrick describes, I've built several towers mostly from 2x4 bricks, with an outer diameter of 8x8 and a 4x4 opening in the center. My application was to support half scale train signs about six or so feet (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.build)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Any tips for building tall towers?
|
| I'm working on a module for the Great Ball Contraption, but this involves having a lot of stuff elevated way up off the plate. At the same time, I don't have a ton of bricks -- I'm a newbie to the AFOL world. So, I need to build some supporting (...) (20 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.build)
|
3 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
