 | | Re: Ladies and gentlemen... —Ross Crawford
| | | | (...) Hi dmac! Great backhoe! I love how you've used the motors and gear selectors to get multiple functions, like in the 8480 space shuttle. And it looks good too, well done! ROSCO (20 years ago, 20-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Ladies and gentlemen... —Maciej Szymanski
| | | | | (...) Thank you, Rosco. (And thank you Eric for the earlier post). Well, gear selectors were just a necessity, but worked out well. I don't think more motors can be squashed into frame only 8 studs wide. I'm planning to use similar system for (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Ladies and gentlemen... —Ross Crawford
| | | | | (...) Ahhhhhh! I actually looked at that technique, and it works OK but you have to make sure the wheels are straight when you switch it! Instead I investigated (URL) this technique> but have yet to use it in a MOC. ROSCO (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Ladies and gentlemen... —Maciej Szymanski
| | | | | (...) Yeah, putting them straight is the real trick, isn't it. My plan is to use springs (shock absorbers) which hopefully will align the mechanism centrally in this brief moment when gear shift is in "idle" position. For now it's all theory, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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