Thread: Using a turret? Whatre your ideas on elevator design?
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Re: Using a turret? Whatre your ideas on elevator design?
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
If you can deal with the turret having a limited range of motion, your "sprocket" can be a wooden disk with chain bolted to the outer edge and driven by a smaller sprocket. You can either have the chain make a typical loop around the driving sprocket, or just have the chain in a circle around the disk and drive it as if it were a gear.
1747 did that in 2009 with great success...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32733

(the turret motor is in the back; a globe)

we used a large AL lazy suzan and cut and drilled washers to interface the chain to the turret. the chain was nylon. the only time it failed was when some programmers were using it to test the new classmate in 2010... the chain became derailed... easily fixable.
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