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Re: Rhombic pantographs
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:37:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Gianluca Morelli writes:

[snip]

If you followed well my instructions (or,if they've been clear
enough...),now you have a thin but strong,moveable pantograph!
I've been a bit long....I hope I havent bored you!


I think the best solution would be a picture: that would tell more than 1000
words (to be honest: I couldn't follow your description).

BTW: I think you know about my pantograph? Ok, it's kind of impurity, because I
have used cutted Lego parts (tubes like the ones from 7813, but those have been
damaged before).

http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/pi415.jpg
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/pi426.jpg
same including some text:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun

Regards,

Ben



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  Re: Rhombic pantographs
 
(...) Yes,Ben,I agree with you...I'm really sorry for this (and I really used 1000s of words...),but I can't get a scanner,for now...The nearest friend of mine that has one is white washing the walls of his house!!! :-(( (...) I (...) been (...) (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Rhombic pantographs
 
Hi Guys, I was reading your thread and had a thought. What if your took Ben's idea, aligned the hinges so they are symmetrical and then insert two pneumatic "T"'s (on each side) into the tubing. The "T" would be rotated so that it was an up- (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  Rhombic pantographs
 
Hi all,did anyone ever succeed in realizing a rhombic pantograph? I mean,that also moves up and down... Lego ,in early 80s made these pantographs using plates,on 7740. (URL) course they were static,but they were so similar to real ones .... I also (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)

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