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Subject: 
Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:48:14 GMT
Original-From: 
Steve Baker <[sjbaker1@airmail.]stopspam[net]>
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John Guerquin 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!

I should make it clear that this isn't my invention - I just remembered
the URL for it.

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  Re: Mechanical Indexing Drives
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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