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Message #13363
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Ben Hitchcock beh01@uow.edu.au
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:29:22 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: Magbot butterfly
I used the moving element from a voltmeter. For pictures go to
http://wollongong.apana.org.au/~ben/dragon/
The problem with doing it this way is balance. The thing needs to be
balanced very carefully for it to work.
But it does work - I've built three this way. You might try using a FRED
solar engine instead of a SunEater - less components and easier to build.
Ben
> In a message dated 4/11/2000 4:30:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> leif_74@hotmail.com writes:
>
> << i'm wondering how you make the wings on a butterfly flap >>
>
>
> you can buy lexan sheets from a locak hobby supply and paint the underside of
> the sheet to look like the wing pattern ~ i do this with slot car bodies ~
> heat the lexan ~ mold it around a body mold and then paint the inside
>
> you need to lightly sand the surface to make the paint adhear with a very
> fine grit sand paper ~ then you can mask off the areas to be clear and paint
> the others
>
> Steve
--
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
13364 Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:38:37 PDT Re: Magbot butterfly beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "leif_ 74"
>From: "Mike Kulesza"
>Reply-To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Subject: Re: Magbot butterfly
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:12:35 GMT
>
>
>There are several ways to make the wings flap. The primary method is to
>have
>a magn
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