So we're coming home from our little vacation to see my family, and we're just about to leave the airport when we see this thing and I have a total geek attack.
There were a couple of maintenance guys replacing the power transmission on one of the moving walkways. Big machines, got to love it.
Can you see the six inch transmission shaft? And the double roller chain drive sprocket? The coolest part for me is seeing the sprockets that drive the walkway pieces themselves. At the end of each walkway piece it is attached to a HUGE piece of roller chain which meshes with those two ridiculous sprockets in the picture. I'm not sure what the smaller sprockets are for, but I bet its for some kind of feedback.
Bigger parts than a theatre guy will likely ever use. But cool anyway.
2 comments:
That is SO COOL! I am jealous of your sighting of the huge machine parts. Did you tell/show Mr. Hines yet?
Back to weeding vinyl.
< geekout> Those are 16 tooth sprockets! On 6" shaft! What do you think the tpi is on those things? Like, .2 or something?< /geekout>
I wrote the other comment, then looked again at the picture, and the geekout grew to the point of needing its own html code. But blogger threw up on that idea:
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