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    Ideas from Alf...

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    Post  Tom(ADMIN) Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:17 pm

    These two ideas are from Alf, very clever they are too...

    First one is for a magnet switch....

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    Second one is a geared drive for opening torpedo doors, hatches, even raising perscopes...

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    And the recently arrived pics to go with the drawings...

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    Post  david f Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:15 am

    That's very good.

    It saves all the bother of limit switches and means that it could operate in water, for example.

    I wonder how big it could get? Would it work for a piston tank?
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