paul_c
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Meccano Ferris WheelI 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
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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
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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
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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
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Inspiring stuff guys...thanks for sharing.
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xlchainsaw
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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
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| Chris wrote: | 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. |
thanks for showing your vids. wait till liz sees your pirate ship!!! we have a set to build and havent started yet. its now going to be a toss up between the boat and the project we got the kit for.
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Wallace
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That certainly is a good set suited to steam
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paul_c
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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
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Ferris wheeli 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
Neil
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Chris
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Re: Ferris wheel | taz-in-gosport wrote: | 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
Neil |
It needs slowing up a bit. The electric motor has a worm gear, but I don't think that is very easy to drive from steam. I use a few pulleys, but that is a bit of an ugly solution but it is what I have.
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Freeminer
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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
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i used 75mm pulleys to slow mine down.
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fcrammond
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Surely you mean three inch. Frank Hornby will be turning in his grave.
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tmuir
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| fcrammond wrote: | | Surely you mean three inch. Frank Hornby will be turning in his grave. |
The sets in the 70s listed the parts in imperial and it's metric equivalent. (well its metric approximate anyhow  ) 
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xlchainsaw
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| fcrammond wrote: | | Surely you mean three inch. Frank Hornby will be turning in his grave. |
yes three inch will do me fine. liz has now made her pirate ship so i will need some more 3 inch (75mm ) pulleys to convert it.but i may need a yard and a half of drive band! as well.but a chain of mecanno drive chain may be a bit much but i could always build something else to use it up!
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fcrammond
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There was a post somewhere recently about making drive band from continuous rubber material and jointing it with superglue. I know you can join the rubber belting on Van de Graaff generators very successfully with superglue. I was a bit leery of using rubber belts with steam engines, most of mine are meths fired and there is usually a liitle fire or two going on at the edges of my vision. Thyey are hard to see if the lighting is strong. I guess you just have to be careful (or use electrically fired engines)
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