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Fantastic Contraption

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Yeah, same train of thought - trying to toss it to the side while having some pull but give to the other direction. This one took a lot of tinkering for me to just get it right.

Lol, and I thought I was so clever :D

Funny... looks a lot like one of my designs ;)
Similar design, but I went the slightly more over complicated, brute force route:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=716181
Wow, you made that, huh? :D

Yeah, the links from the flash don't always copy to the clipboard for some reason.
 

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Yeah, same train of thought - trying to toss it to the side while having some pull but give to the other direction. This one took a lot of tinkering for me to just get it right.


Lol, and I thought I was so clever :D


Funny... looks a lot like one of my designs ;)

Wow, you made that, huh? :D

Yeah, the links from the flash don't always copy to the clipboard for some reason.

:oops: I was getting a bit ahead of myself there. :oops: I already fixed the last one, here's the second to last one:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1350892
 

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Nice. It's funny, with Down Under one of my biggest problems was the blue links snapping under heavy loads going off the side. Anyone else have that problem?

It seems like the blue rods have a tendency to break when the links are pretty short in length. I've had it happen on a couple of designs..
 

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Nice. It's funny, with Down Under one of my biggest problems was the blue links snapping under heavy loads going off the side. Anyone else have that problem?

I saw one design that ended int eh whole contraption blowing apart- all made of blues. It was pretty cool.
 
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