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paul_c · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:58 am Post subject: Meccano Ferris Wheel

I made this from the set I received for Christmas -

Only two annoying things were tha the allen key supplied was made of butter and quickly rounded off and was useless and the other was that the motor shaft was the wrong size so the gear would not fit. Luckily I had another motor that had the right size shaft.

Here is a short vid of the finished piece

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paul_c · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:10 am Post subject:

Here are a few more models that i made with the help of my son, he likes trucks and planes -

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Chris · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject:

I've got the same ferris wheel kit, I have some videos on the forum with a couple of the models being ran from my TE1a.

It is a good kit.
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Chris · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject:

Here they are, had to do a few mods and add some pulleys to get them to work properly with the TE1a.
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IndianaRog · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject:

Inspiring stuff guys...thanks for sharing.
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xlchainsaw · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:38 pm Post subject:

that looks terrific paul! i hope you are bringing it to petrie! and your other models as you know there is great public interest in mecanno.

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xlchainsaw · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:42 pm Post subject:

Wallace · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:08 am Post subject:

That certainly is a good set suited to steam

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paul_c · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:39 am Post subject:

It is a good set, the only problem is the quality of some items. The allen key is very poor and made the job hard, kids would give up unless Dad has another one. I have just returned from my shed where I sat filing down the motor shaft untill it was right, it is not a round one but it is triangular in a fashion. It took about half an hour of gentle work to put it right.

One thing I have noticed is that Meccano advertise a 3 volt and a 6 volt motor. The 2 sets I bought, have one of each type, they are the same motor with 3-6 volt on the case. Meccano supply battery boxes to take 2 or 4 batteries giving you 3 or 6 volts

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taz-in-gosport · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:57 pm Post subject: Ferris wheel

i have also built the ferris wheel and i am now in the process of working out the gears to get it to run from my mamod showmans.

first time i tried it, it was a bit to fast and if real, the passangers whould have been flung out of their seats

when i get it going i will try and post

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Chris · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:00 pm Post subject: Re: Ferris wheel

Freeminer · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject:

I have built the Eitech one.

Went straight to steam power, and found the best way to do it was to replace the electric motor drive with a showmans engine flywheel then drive it on the outside rim.

I used a Wilesco D22 to drive it so that I had good speed control.
Some fine tuning is possible by controling steam by running on sterno for slower steam evolution.
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xlchainsaw · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:21 am Post subject:

i used 75mm pulleys to slow mine down.

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fcrammond · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:56 am Post subject:

Surely you mean three inch. Frank Hornby will be turning in his grave.

tmuir · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:28 am Post subject: