Garden Scale Gyro Monorail

Perry said:
Whilst viewing YouTube videos, I noticed one for the Akubi Light Railway in Japan. The website http://www.ne.jp/asahi/beat/non/loco/loco0e.html was easy to find & my eye was drawn to http://www.ne.jp/asahi/beat/non/loco/gyro/gyroindex2.html

There is a free ebook of plans to build a simple Gyro Railcar for anyone so inclined?

Update: I just downloaded my copy. Very easy.

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Except you need to create a 'Lulu account'.. so they can send you information about other books (presumably?) :(
 
Not a problem AFAIK! I just block any emails that I don't want.

The Akubi Light Railway posted a couple of videos.


 
Ryuichi Sato who constructed the Gyro Monorail is a bit of an engineering tyro. He built a C62 in 16.5mm. It's just beautiful work.

He wrote:
I already uploaded it, but the aspect ratio became wrong and it became hard to see, so I uploaded it again.
Uploaded on April 15, 2010

16.5 mm gauge 1/80 C62. Live Steam Produced in TMS at the time of production in 1974
Fuel runs for 20 minutes on a single machine with 22 cc of butane gas for lighter
About 10 minutes driving by towing by passenger car

 
Been looking for sealed gyro's.... :(:shake:

Difficult to find something smaller than will go in an attack helicopter! :devil::devil:
I am *sure* some of the larger drones are gyro stabilised, but having difficulty finding parts.. :rolleyes:

The problem with 'just' having open flywheels, is the noise they will make. :nod:
 
I think they use solid state gyros Phil - god knows how they work?
 
stockers said:
I think they use solid state gyros Phil - god knows how they work?
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They probably 'do it in software'... Inherently unstable like modern war-planes..
I remember seeing video of a ?F16? (which had been flying straight and level for four miles) pass under the plane filming..
The control surfaces were all over the place, moving all the time..
 
I remember the little "Merit" gyroscopes, about 2 inch dia', you could buy in the 60's. As an 11 year old I fooled, a somewhat meek and timid, music teacher that I had caught a wasp in the box it came in. There it was, the gyroscope, buzzing and teetering enclosed in its box's on edge along the window frame I'd placed it on with the teacher looking on in shear terror. I scored some brownie points with my classmates that day. Max
 
And to think that the protype concept, Patented in 1903, was invented by a man (Louis Brennan) from Castlebar, County Mayo! He also invented the steerable torpedo - and the helicopter!

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PhilP said:
The control surfaces were all over the place, moving all the time..
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That's what the joystick is like when I'm flying the cab....
 
Neat ! The stability is amazing, even on that un-sleepered track.
 
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