How do you build telescopes/forklifts?

[,4lex S.]

One thing my old team used to do a lot was build telescoping sections by interfacing 8020 with a delrin slider (you can see the result relatively well here). Overall, it was simple to implement and mounting pulleys was easy.

If someone optimized the weight, and figured out how to reduce binding more, this design could work pretty efficiently.

[blayde5]

Originally Posted by ,4lex S.

One thing my old team used to do a lot was build telescoping sections by interfacing 8020 with a delrin slider (you can see the result relatively well here). Overall, it was simple to implement and mounting pulleys was easy.

If someone optimized the weight, and figured out how to reduce binding more, this design could work pretty efficiently.

Whenever our team has made elevators, we have used 80/20 like material and delirin sliders as well. It's generally very east to set up albeit a little on the heavy side.

[Mike Schreiber]

Does anyone have detailed pictures of Hammond from '07? That is probably one of the best examples I can think of, but I can't seem to find any close up pictures of their elevator on here or their website.