Stock ways to spin things.

[Bubbadevlin]

Well i am still working on miniaturizing my walker (found in signature) but I was wondering if there are any other ways of spinning something in stock KSP

I currently know two ways,

A turboprop

Using the Narrow-Band scanner

Any ideas people?, turboprops are just too large and fuel inefficient, and the Narrow-Band scanner provides no torqe

[Vanamonde]

How-to question moved to the how-to subforum. Good luck with it.

[Van Disaster]

A cylinder stuck inside a tunnel of rover wheels. Or at least a cylinder trapped between things which let it spin, and a couple of rover wheels riding on it.

Edited October 31, 2015 by Van Disaster

[Bubbadevlin]

I was wondering if that even worked, it seemed like the rover wheels did not work at all

[Rithsom]

Not all hope is lost with the narrow-band scanners. I just tried using them in combination with a gear, and it is actually possible to get a lot of power out of them. I quickly made a tractor/traction engine powered by this method and it seems to be very reliable. The scanners never glitch through the teeth of the cog, and the mechanism never falls apart.

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[Van Disaster]

I was wondering if that even worked, it seemed like the rover wheels did not work at all

It doesn't appear to now - I'm sure it *did*, although I might have been misremembering some mod wheels.

[Bubbadevlin]

Wow! very cool dude, could i by any change have a download for that?

[Rithsom]

Wow! very cool dude, could i by any change have a download for that?

Thanks! Here it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzxuztwni671qlp/NB%20Scanner%20Tractor.craft?dl=0

The vehicle is very slow, but it has a lot of torque as I've said in my post above. I'm not sure how feasible it would be to make it go faster.

Edited October 31, 2015 by Rthsom

[Van Disaster]

OK, so Baha's adjustable landing gear works as static drive units - so Unity wheels *can* provide torque to things other than the ground - just no luck with rover wheels so far. This sort of thing works fine so it might just be a case of friction issues - this obviously isn't quite so useful as the wheels attached to the static part.

Edited October 31, 2015 by Van Disaster

[klesh]

There is also this: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/129723-Stock-Super-Compact-Bearing-made-from-fairings!

[Bubbadevlin]

Thanks for all the ideas, and i think the narrow band scanners will work after all, and klesh, i know how to make bearings, i just need a form of propulsion (turbos dont really work on the mun)

[uncle_jew]

You can also build a simple turbine using a rocket engine and something round with winglets serving as turbine blades.Or, just mount rocket engines on the rotating part in the tangential direction. This results in very spectacular failures :DI think there might even be a practical aspect in it, because I think it should be possible to make a forklift using a rocket engine, and adjust the height by varying the thrust.

[klesh]

klesh, i know how to make bearings, i just need a form of propulsion (turbos dont really work on the mun)

You asked for stock ways to spin things and I provided one. Next time, be more specific then. :-P