Four position simple sector...
Sometimes simple ideas are the best, and it was during last year that a casual email conversation led to this rather wonderful, and I'm sure, not original concept...
First of all, thank you to regular blog reader, Alberto Gonzalez in Spain. This video, his own work, shows the concept and I didn't think I could do any better, so with his kind permission I'm sharing it with you all here. I think this is ingenious and could be made to work very nicely indeed - and we both acknowledge this is unlikely to be new, but Alberto's video makes the operation so visual and clear - I think it could help those that want more than just a two track Paxton Road - but still like the idea of a simple and tactile sector plate. Until next time, more soon...
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ReplyDeleteThank you James and Alberto for publishing this. This is a very clever idea - effectively a two position sector plate on a two position sub-sector plate. With some ingenuity it might be simply automated using two motors that were able to stall under load.
CP
Thanks Christopher - you might be right, equally, if you make the lower one slightly 'stickier' than the upper, then it would work with just finger pressure.
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