September Meeting/Drawbridge
This month’s meeting was held at Spencer’s home in Wendover, Nevada.
The agenda was as followed:
- We toured Spencer’s new LEGO room. The room is located in his
basement and is 15′ by 20′ with metal shelves to hold his collection. - Spencer is on the decline of sorting his e-bay purchase from
March. However, during the meeting Spencer discovered that his sorting,
at times, was insufficient to produce a known part at a given time. - The LUG choose to build a working drawbridge to use in our train layouts.
The LUG has been unable to build a circular layout due to access to the interior (no one enjoyed crawling under the tables).
The bridge turned out great and was a classic LUG collaboration with everyone pitching in the help. George and Nate worked on the bridge understructure and towers. Isaac, Luke and Bill worked on the bridge side trusses and the towers. Luke contributed two “U-LUG” mosaics to integrate into the sides of the towers. Bill, Brian and Spencer designed a motor and pulley system to lift the bridge. Our expectations of the weight of the bridge were too high and the gear-down too large
and slow. In fact the motor probably could have lifted a small car
without problem. The highlight of the day was when we put all the pieces
together and the bridge worked on the first try!
Please review the film here: (link coming soon-ish)
We would like to thank Spencer for the opportunity to meet at his house and the wonderful lunch Cindy (his wife) provided us.
Large portions of this post were written by Brian Pilati.
