An Escalator Made of Cardboard(youtube.com)

52 pointsby fortran77vor 5 Jahren10 comments

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An Escalator Made of Cardboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By1GWUpCXtw

7 comments

rdtwovor 5 Jahren

That’s realty impressive

JFKKFJvor 5 Jahren

The original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtnYpSRSnew

FlingPoovor 5 Jahren

The original full video:

https://youtu.be/DtnYpSRSnew

djmipsvor 5 Jahren

The design really misses out on showing how the steps fold 'flat' for their return trip.

(Needs to be changed to original, not some cheap re-upload.)

SamBamvor 5 Jahren

Yes, that was the exact part I was looking for, since I've never quite been able to visualize it, and they just glossed over it.

prestigiousvor 5 Jahren

I’m curious why if they are that simple escalators are basically a monopoly (at least in Canada) with repairmen making huge dollars to fix them (which they seem to do on a weekly basis). I’m always wondering why somebody doesn’t disrupt it but it’s probably government corruption as per usual.

klyrsvor 5 Jahren

One shouldn't extrapolate the difficulty of making something out of metal, from a video montage of somebody making a miniature version out of cardboard. However, there is (or, was, as I haven't been on the skytrain since march of last year) something up with escalators in the Vancouver area. Not just the frequency of outages, but I've seen quite a few go out of service for weeks, in service for a few days, and then back out again. It brings to mind some absurd conspiracy theories; my favorite being that there simply aren't enough parts to go around, and the technicians are cannibalizing one to fix another.

dkjaudyeqooevor 5 Jahren

*and wood and plastic.

geenewvor 5 Jahren

* and glue

Title should be "Lovely small escalator of mostly cardboard"

tacotimevor 5 Jahren

Neat, now I want a 3D printed version.