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If one person could rotate the whole thing with a crank, why couldn't the prisoners do the same by holding the bars and pushing on the walls? Anyway, this remi
by desertrider12 7y ago
If one person could rotate the whole thing with a crank, why couldn't the prisoners do the same by holding the bars and pushing on the walls?
Anyway, this reminded me of the mechanical fortress from Myst.
- catalogia 7y agoWorm gear maybe, so it couldn't be back driven?
- fake-name 7y agoThere's a variety of motion mechanisms that can't be backdriven. A worm drive[1] is a common one. Alternatively, they could simply have a external lock on rotation that's engaged when someone's not actively moving the cells. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_drive