Steampunk Mechanical Elephant

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Andrew Chase's Mechanical Elephant

This amazing mechanical design was made out of transmission parts, electrical conduits, plumbing pipes and 20-gauge cold rolled steel.

It is 36" x 36" x 18" and weighs about 85 pounds.

All the joints move and lock in place; turning a gear on the elephant's side winds a cable around a shaft which raises and lowers the trunk; the ears move back and forth and can fan out (to dissipate heat).

It took Andrew about three and a half months to build.

The elephant is going to be a part of Andrew's "timmy" book, where he joins the other characters which can be seen in the Trionic Morphatractable Engineer article.
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[via Milena]