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Re: How do you build an elevator?
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:49:01 GMT
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Greg Kramer writes:
> 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:
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> 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.
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> 2) As the elevator gets pulled up toward each floor, the car catches on the
> plate used for the floor above.
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> 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
Greg,
What if you attached a cable to the top of the car, then looped it around a
pulley at the top had it continue down the legnth of the shaft to another
pulley at the bottom of the shaft then back up to the bottom of the car,
making a sort of pull-pull arrangement ie no matter if the car is going up or
down it's actually being pulled, not relying on gravity.
just a thought
Scott C. Beaton
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