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Re: building a freewheel?
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Date: 
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:11:53 GMT
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"Bill Clagett" <bill.clagett@pobox.com> writes:

What is the correct term for this device? How do non-Lego ones work? Does
anyone have any insight as to how one might do this with Technic peices?

Indeed, yes.  There is a mechanism like this on the 8205 rubber band
powered dragster:

    http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8205

The mechanism allows the driven wheels to freely go forward, and the
rubber band spool to drive them.

I've made a related device too, which gives the "absolute value" of an
input axle, i.e. the rotation in one direction only:

    http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/direction-unifier/

Fredrik



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  building a freewheel?
 
I'd like to drive an axle but also allow it to coast forward, just like a multi-speed bicycle's rear hub. What is the correct term for this device? How do non-Lego ones work? Does anyone have any insight as to how one might do this with Technic (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)

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