27 Sep
2010
27 Sep
'10
7:20 p.m.
On 9/27/2010 1:14 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Charlie Carothers wrote:
That is quite
true, though I can't recall ever hurting myself with those
either. I have the feeling somehow that just tinkering with such things
at an early age helped equip me to behave safely when later in life I
worked around some much larger, much higher powered, and therefore much
more dangerous open gear and drive belt situations.
I suppose there are some advantages to having
been born in 1938. :-) I
still think the Erector set I got for Christmas when I was about 10 was
about the best present I ever got from my parents. After they passed
away in 99, when I was cleaning out one of their storage buildings I
rescued it, and I still have what was left of it out in my garage. The
last thing I built with it (a windmill) is out there too. With the
little electric motor on the base driving it I'm sure those unprotected
Lots of opportunity for minor finger damage in that open gearbox! That was the blue mains powered motor with the
attached red frame holding
a bunch of gears on shafts that could be slid back and forth to enagage?
That
sounds about right. It is definitely mains powered, and I'm pretty
sure the motor is sort of pale blue or blue/gray. I think some of the
color on the little frame that holds the gears may have faded quite a
bit over the years and/or the paint peeled off. The gears do slide back
and forth on shafts, and ISTR there are set screws to clamp them where
you currently want them. I think there may be collars with set screws
on the outside of the frame so you can move the shafts to different hole
positions as well.
Later,
Charlie C.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com