Water Wheel / Mechanical Power help

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kdfb
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Water Wheel / Mechanical Power help

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I've been having some trouble attaching my waterwheel to a millstone. I'll screenshot my set up and hopefully I'm just missing something obvious.

http://imgur.com/Rw2fj

Pretty simple, right? Waterwheel is turning, attached to gearbox to axles to gearbox to axle to millstone, with hemp loaded.

Any assistance? Whatever I try, the power doesn't get transferred out of the waterwheel through the axles.

Thanks,

Kyle
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walker_boh_65
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Re: Water Wheel / Mechanical Power help

Post by walker_boh_65 »

first off, great name, mine too

and for your problem the arrows on the gear bow face toward the power source
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RegularX
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Re: Water Wheel / Mechanical Power help

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But if it makes you feel any better, did the exact same thing with my first one.

It's handy to have other things to hang the gearbox against, like a wall or ceiling or pillar. That makes it easy to be facing the way the gearbox expects.
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Re: Water Wheel / Mechanical Power help

Post by walker_boh_65 »

i think you could switch it to face away from you in the options, before you load it, i could be wrong though,
kdfb
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Re: Water Wheel / Mechanical Power help

Post by kdfb »

Heh, thanks. Good to see some Kyle's out there.

And thanks for the help too. I fixed the problem by switching around the facings of each gearbox until they all aligned.

Another pic now that it's working.

http://imgur.com/9N8Ka

Thanks!
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