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Re: Steering of driven wheels
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 01:34:26 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Simon Bennett writes:
> Dear all, I hope someone can help me. I am attempting a MOC of a Series II
> Land-Rover with as much functionality as I can achieve and last night I
> realised that the only set with steerable driven wheels is the 8880. I have
> one and I could use the wheels from that but that would up the scale of the
> model too far. Has anyone else tried to do this? Could they let me know how
> they achieved it? (I may be wrong that there's no COTS model with full 4
> wheel drive).
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> I have an idea but it is reliant on a universal joint just behind the wheel
> which means the pivot point is 3 away from the wheel and this makes it
> difficult to build the steering in (and makes the model too wide).
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> At the moment I am just discovering all the wonders of LUGNET and therefore
> have still not got LDraw to work or I would try to render this.
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> On a related point this MOC will also require non-independent, leaf spring
> suspension and I have resorted to using a shock absorber 6.5L at a very
> shallow angle to match the profile of where the leaf spring would go. It
> occurred to me that it could be possible to make a leaf spring from some
> metal and then drill holes in it to enable it to be sandwiched between two
> bricks. Is this sort of 'custom part manufacture' frowned upon and if not
> has anyone attempted anything similar?
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> Psi
I tried doing this a year or so ago using several (2/wheel) universal
joints; it worked pretty well but had some pretty bad limitations. The main
problems with it were that it was way too bulky (24 studs wide) and also
that the suspension and steering systems ahd to be done at pretty shallow
angles; anything higher causes the universal joints to snap out of place.
The front wheel pieces from the 8865 Auto Chassis (also included in black in
8485 Control Center II) seem to work rather well here, but it can be done
without using them (although it becomes even bulkier). Someone else has
probably come up with something more compact and efficient though...
-Gaurav Thakur, raving madman
Can be reached at cp5670@supermail.com
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