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Bairefoot Inner circle 1097 Posts |
I have a coin ladder and trying to make a norm nelson coin fall into ladder about 10 feet away. No thread Thank you.
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
I am sure Norm's coin effect was an electronic device. A lot more complicated then you think. So for 10 feet you would have to add a remote. To bad, Owen's Magic is out of business, they would have been the people to help you.
I heard, His wife sold all his props, I did not hear who the collector may have acquired his stage act props. |
Bairefoot Inner circle 1097 Posts |
Thank you.
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hugmagic Inner circle 7665 Posts |
Norm's was not electronic.
Michael, I will try to get in touch with you for the solution.
Richard E. Hughes, Hughes Magic Inc., 352 N. Prospect St., Ravenna, OH 44266 (330)296-4023
www.hughesmagic.com email-hugmagic@raex.com Write direct as I will be turning off my PM's. |
Bairefoot Inner circle 1097 Posts |
Thank you Hugh.
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
Richard Hughes, I don't believe you are thinking of what Bairefoot is referring to. During Norms act, you see a coin very slowly moving out midway out from the ladder. Then drops as Norm throws a coin into the air toward the ladder. The coin cascades down the the rungs.
I believe that could only be accomplished by remote. If I am wrong, then it was time set, and that meant that Norm perfectly timed his act, to coincide with his throwing of the coin. I believe it was electronics because he did use electronics with his finale violin coming out and bowing at the end. Norm was a perfectionist, and this could have been him perfectly timing the actions. I think that there was two instances a coin fell down the ladder, one was when Norm threw a coin, and again when a coin fell midway from the rungs. That one was used for misdirect at that point in the act. His act was perfection. |
Bairefoot Inner circle 1097 Posts |
I made a solution where I got a Jewelry box motor and put a string on the motor and this pulls the string which is attached to card. It pulls the card and the coin falls.
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Anverdi-museum Inner circle 1196 Posts |
Probably the easiest and most reliable way to do this is attach the shaft of a low rpm gear motor to the dead center of a flat round disc about five inches in diameter. The disc has several holes or circles cut into it slightly larger than a half dollar. The motor can be attached to a delay or receiver with a momentary remote. When you push the button on remote it slowly rotates the disc which will drop one coin at a time down the ladder. Attached is a brief video of a table top ladder I built with this mechanism that utilizes jus this arrangement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-o7szP8gs Chuck |
Bairefoot Inner circle 1097 Posts |
Thanks everyone.
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
I purchased a coin ladder from Tannen's years ago. It had a spring mechanism, you hit a wire, and it ejects one coin to fall down the rungs.
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