Rotating TV Antenna
This one is pretty subtle, but that's the way I like my animations. It's really dirt-simple, and pairs well with a B&W TV set. It required building a miniature mechanism because there was no room for one in the first floor.
The entire drive was assembled on a slab of styrene that serves as the second floor floor. The large gear (above) has a piece of fine tubing mounted to it; the antenna (a Gold Medal Models item) was soldered to fine wire that simply fits into the tubing, making it very easy to assemble, or to remove for maintenance. It's aligned such that the rod runs parallel to one corner of the chimney. The whole thing took about an hour to build.
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