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Re: Water wheel construction
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:42:08 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Brink wrote:
> Here is a better picture of the water wheel construction:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jbrink44/wheel/waterwheel.jpg
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> The wheel is held to the shaft using 1x1 plate clips. Each spoke is a horizontal
> clip and a vertical clip. The spokes at the seams of the tan pieces are dummies.
> They don't really hold anything.
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> Here is a better shot:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jbrink44/wheel/waterwheel2.jpg
Thanks for that additional detail. Neat model
I'm curious, did you try rotating the fencing 22.5 degrees relative to the 8
clips so that each fence would be held on by 2 clips and all 8 would be used? Or
does that not work, even if you skew the clips slightly?
I want to see someone do an overshot wheel this way...
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| Hi Larry, (...) I looked at this. There are 20 equally spaced posts in the wheel (5 per fence piece). So 2,4,5,10 go in equally, but not 8. I was limited by the octagon piece to 2,4,or 8 spokes. I tried and you can fudge with 8 spokes in real life (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| Here is a better picture of the water wheel construction: (URL) wheel is held to the shaft using 1x1 plate clips. Each spoke is a horizontal clip and a vertical clip. The spokes at the seams of the tan pieces are dummies. They don't really hold (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.castle)
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