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Meccano Ferris Wheel
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xlchainsaw


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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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