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Re: pneumatics along an telescopic boom....
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 27 May 2003 11:09:48 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Gerard Steenbeek writes:
> Most people who have built telescopic booms use them for cranes... I am not
> building a crane. However I am using a telescopic boom, and I need movement
> at the end of the boom. Unfortunately i do not have a micromotor. I do have
> pneumatics, so i need to find a way to extend a boom by about 30 studs and
> have pneumatic hoses go inside it. But to keep it to scale the boom is 4
> studs wide and the boom that comes out is 2 studs wide. One row of studs is
> used for the track, leaving me with one row of studs. So by attaching 2 flex
> hoses together i can get tubes along the boom but i can`t find a way to
> orderly deal with the airhoses needed whn the boom is extended.right now it
> just comes out the back and looks stupid with 35cm of tubes hanging there.
> Any ideas what might work? I could run air tubes on the outside of the
> boombut then i have lose hoses around the extending boom and no way to deal
> with those. In real machinery they just fold inside, but i don`t have room
> for that... any ideas?
One I saw had the hose arranged in a flat "S" arrangement - with the hose
going around a wheel that moved at half the rate of the extending boom.
Dunno if you could do something like that with LEGO though.
ROSCO
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