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Hand-Cranked wood model of man cranking a Model T

I decided to modify the man cranking a Model T whirligig, and make it a hand-cranked model as well.


2004 Death of Anders S. Lunde

The original design of this whirligig came from a book written by Anders S. Lunde.  I checked the Internet, and he died back in 2004. I admire his artistic ability to come up with the many different whirligig designs that he did.

CHAPEL HILL - Dr. Anders S. Lunde

Obituary - LUNDE

Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC) - Wednesday, April 14, 2004

CHAPEL HILL - Dr. Anders S. Lunde, of Carolina Meadows, died Monday, April 12, 2004. He was 89 years of age and had been a resident of Chapel Hill since 1967. A demographer, Dr. Lunde was formerly Associate Director of the National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Public Health Service.

Dr. Lunde was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, December 10, 1914, and was educated at its public schools (Central High School Class of 1932) He received his A.B. and B. Div. Degrees from St. Lawrence University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. In the early part of his career he was a clergyman and was minister of the Old Ship Church in Hingham, Mass. He left this position to become an Army Chaplain, serving in the Ski Troops in this country and in the infantry in France and Germany. Following WWII, after graduate work in population research, he entered university teaching and taught at Rutgers University, St. Lawrence University and Gallaudet University. He entered Federal government service in 1962 as Chief of Natality Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, and became, successively, Deputy Director of the Division of Vital Statistics, Director of the Office of State Services, and finally, Associate Director of the Center. For several years his office was at the Center's laboratory at Research Triangle Park, N.C., where he headed the Applied Statistics Training Institute. For many years he was an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina.

In retirement, Dr. Lunde was active in volunteer services. He had been an officer of the North Carolina Art Society, Chairperson of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, and an officer and Board Member of the Botanical Garden Foundation. His hobby was designing and constructing whirligigs, and he wrote four books on that subject.

Dr. Lunde was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Statistical Association, and of the American Public Health Association. He had been an official of the Population Association of America, and a member of the American Sociological Association. For many years, he was a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C.

In 1939, he married Eleanor Sheldon, of Woodstock, Vermont. Their children are Erik Sheldon Lunde, of East Lansing, Mich., Peter Steen Lunde, of Houston, Texas, and Mrs. Ronald Webster (Anne Louisa Lunde), of Pittsboro, N.C. There are seven grandchildren.

The funeral service will be held at the Church of the Holy Family, 200 Hayes Road, Chapel Hill, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 17, 2004. Interment will be in the churchyard.

Contributions may be made to Triangle Hospice, 1001 Corporate Dr., Hillsborough, N.C. 27278. Arrangements are by - Cremation Society of the Carolinas, Raleigh.

Speed Ratio

Since the 3:1 speed reduction ratio for the gearing on the Woman is Boss hand-cranked model worked ok, I decided to stay with it on this model. I did scale the whirligig model down to 3/4 size, just to reduce the over-all size of the model.


Assembly

I usually do a dry fit, and make sure everything functions ok, before doing final assembly.


In this case, I found some burrs on the wheel spokes I had to file off.....


I had do some trial & error getting the gear to man linkage right.  I measured and the total vertical stroke was 5/8", which meant a stroke of only 5/16".  I ended up moving the brass screw in the big gear from 5/16" to about 3/8".  I also had to lengthen the 2 arm pieces slightly to get it working right.

All brass rods were 1/8" diameter from McMaster-Carr in Chicago. I made thin brass washers, and soldered them to the rods at final assembly. The paint colors were water based Anita's paint bottles from Hobby Lobby.


 

Some Weak Points on 3/4 Scale man and car

Completed Model

Sketchup Warehouse

I put my model design into the Sketchup warehouse. You can download it here.


YouTube Video of model in Action

Closing Thoughts on This Project

I scaled the whirligig portion of this design down to 3/4" scale.  This made a couple of things fragile, which are shown on the illustration above.  I like the 3/4" scale part because it saves storage space.


This was another fun project, and hopefully the kids will have fun with it!