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In article <HE2GCL.1r64@lugnet.com>,
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, Rick Clark writes:
> > Nice! But I think the link is this one:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=42077
> >
> > In lugnet.technic, Bob Kojima writes:
> > > hi everyone,
> > >
> > > a friend asked me to build a drawbridge for a train display. so this is=20
> > > what i came up with:
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3D42077
>
> Wow! Nifty. That's a nice big one! Where was it shown? Proto pics available
> or did you work from memory or?
>
> Did you have any challenges in keeping the two motors sychronized? That's
> been a bugaboo for others, that one side or the other raises a bit too fast
> and skews things.
>
> I think this is my fave shot:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=388957
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> And thanks Rick for de-"URL Encoding" the link... Undecoded it leads to one
> of Kevin's pages, and Kevin L. gets enough publicity as it is. :-)
That is a nice bridge, but I was chiming in to comment on
syncronization...
Has anyone tried using a single motor, and putting the motor in the
span? I know it isn't prototypical, but if the motor was in the span,
and the string/chain was drawn into the span by a single motor, then the
span would pull itself up evenly. This was just a thought, I haven't
tried it.
My lift bridge used a single motor, and I put a drive shaft across the
top to provide power to both sides of the lifting mechanism. I never got
around to trying an alternate design.
http://users.rcn.com/cjmasi/lego/bridges/bridge.htm
Chris
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| In lugnet.technic, Christopher Masi writes: <snip> (...) The GMLTC tried that on our previous layout. We had a motor mounted in the span, geared down to technic 8-tooth gears on each corner. The gears would engage this piece: (URL) (1x20 gear rack) (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I used a single motor, with all cables being passed above the top of the span to get to the far side (4 cables). One trick that I would do if I was building another one is to make the cable drums easier to adjust to one another, since they (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) or did you work from memory or? Did you have any challenges in keeping the two motors sychronized? That's been a bugaboo for others, that one side or the other raises a bit too fast and skews things. I think this is my fave shot: (URL) thanks (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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