OT'ish Rotating House.

[mark]

For anyone interested in a proper project.

mark

[Terry Casey]

In message on Thu, 10 Feb

2011 12:05:21 -0000 mark wrote:

I'd wait for the house to stop spinning ...

And take more water with it next time ...

:)

[Nightjar]

Around which axis?

Colin Bignell

[mark]

Probably just x and y until you get a feel for it.

mark

[Matty F]

Is it OK if the house doesn't always rotate in the same direction but goes backwards regularly? That will allow the wiring, water main, gas pipe and sewer pipe to unwind. Otherwise you'll need to have a concentric pipe arrangement in the middle for the water and gas and sewer. Make sure there's a good seal between the water and sewer pipes. The wiring could be done with slip rings.

[Andy Dingley]

Something of this sort is available (at a price). The people who convert scrap airliners as houses do a swivel-mounted version for mounting in a lake, as the world's biggest weathervane.

(You walk in via a jetty and circular verandah)

[Roger Chapman]

The Post Office Tower had a rotating restaurant on top so that must have had some way of accommodating the various services.

[Malcolm]

IIRC it was only the floor carying the tables which rotated, the services were in a non-rotating core. The speed of rotation was slow enough for people to be able to step across without problems

Malcolm

[Skipweasel]

Power, really. The rest of it was mounted in the core, which didn't revolve.

[Andy Dingley]

Not even power. Only the floor rotated, carrying the tables and chairs with it. The ceiling, lights, and window frames stayed still. So no service connections and no weather seal.

Is it still planned to re-open it in time for Sports Day?

[Andy Champ]

There's one of these on the Donauturm in Vienna. Same principle, but the IRA haven't got to it.

Andy

[Huge]

The bar in the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square rotates. It's only the table part that does, though, it's an annulus around the serving section. IIRC, there are no services on the rotating part.

I spent an amusing evening there once watching Septics choosing tables so they could see the Superbowl on the big telly, which 3 minutes later was behind them ...

[djc]

ditto Berlin

[Andy Champ]

I'm going there soon. Is it worth a visit, and where is it? What else should I see?

Ta

Andy

[djc]

or in Wien

[Andy Champ]

OK Thanks

I knew about that because I've been up it already!

Andy

[djc]

I went up the one in Berlin in 1995. Haven't been near the one in Wien though I was there (and in Berlin) last year. Will be back in May so maybe I should take a look.

[Andy Champ]

If you want to eat up there book ahead.

Andy.

[djc]

Thanks.

If you like towers, there is also the Radio Tower in Berlin

I was at a conference at RBB last year, didn't get a chance to see the Funkturm, though a tour of the original 1920s Radio building and TV studios was interesting.

[djc]

Thanks.

If you like towers, there is also the Radio Tower in Berlin

I was at a conference at RBB last year, didn't get a chance to see the Funkturm, though a tour of the original 1920s Radio building and TV studios was interesting.