Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Building an Engine, Part 2

Today, we have another essential part of our Technic engine: the crankshaft parts.
---Today's Brick---
Name: official name unknown
Size: varies
Color(s): several
These two parts connect together to make a crankshaft for our engine. The crankshaft isn't a straight piece, but rather an assembly of straight pieces, each one of which is offset from the one next to it. Since I can't explain it too well, I'll just show you a picture:
Here, I've put the crankshaft pieces together with the pistons from yesterday, and now we have a complete crankshaft/piston assembly. Notice that the black axle on the left and the gray axle on the right only rotate; they don't move up and down with the pistons. This lets the engine assembly be mounted in a model easily.

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