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Subject: 
Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:13:45 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, sjbaker1@airmail.net writes:
Iain Hendry wrote:


Has anyone done any type of indexing drive, say, where a carousel is
driven intermitently, with dwell, from a continuously-rotating input
shaft?

Here is a nice Geneva escapement done in Lego:

   http://home.insight.rr.com/worldof/lego/gen_whl_esc/index.html

I used this quite successfully - although it is rather bulky.

----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------

Great job Steve!!  I *KNEW* someone must have built one already!

As soon as I saw Iain's post I started thinking about it, and quickly
built one.  Although not as pretty or sturdy as Steve's, it works
nonetheless.  Since I don't have access to a digital camera right now,
I built a simplified version of it in LDRAW.  Mainly it's missing axles
and a few liftarms compared to my physical model. The distance between axle
centers is 7 studs, which does create some friction.  It relies on the
4x4 round bricks
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?PartID=2577,
and is therefore not a purely-technic solution.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22244
(probably not public yet)

John



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  Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
(...) I should make it clear that this isn't my invention - I just remembered the URL for it. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 URLs) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
(...) Here is a nice Geneva escapement done in Lego: (URL) used this quite successfully - although it is rather bulky. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : (8 URLs) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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