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I've been toying around with Lumia builds recently and have been looking for a good drive motor. By blind luck I met someone who's in charge of maintenance and acquisition of all the lab equipment at a local university. In addition to this she is responsible to dispose of old equipment and she invited me to the university a few days ago to let me dig through some older equipment headed to the dump. Among a bunch of old centrifuges, heating pads, stirring devices, and other obsolete lab equipment I cam across a very plain looking old device that looked like a vertical motorized paper towel dispenser. It has a few cogs inside titled "Boston" but there are not any manufacturing markings elsewhere. It was clearly some sort of old recording device that turned some sort of drum where a marking device could record on this drum. I plugged it in and it worked! The base of the drum holder turned very slowly with a whirring sound. I noticed a little knob on the side that when turned to one of about five positions changed the speed of the spindle. Anywhere from about 1 rpm down to maybe 1/10th of an rpm. I grabbed it up. Today I opened it up and almost passed out when I saw the beautiful brass mechanism inside. It is the coolest looking clockwork style drive mechanism I could have ever imagined for building a steampunk Lumia. I've included a few pics of the device for your viewing pleasure. I plan to create a steampunk style Lumia with it using a few of Sinner's copperhead hosts mounted inside. It will be a while before it's done but for now I thought I would show off the drive mechanism.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
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