Change to the oil pump graphic

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seePyou
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Change to the oil pump graphic

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I would like to propose a correction to the Oil Pump graphic from the current model seen here:

https://eu2.factorio.com/assets/img/blo ... tities.gif

to remove the rod that protrudes from the rolling head of the drill. There is no rod attached to the moving head in an Oil Pump. The head is of a circular perimeter to always maintain the same distance to the vertical as the total arm rotates. At the top of the head (or going over the top and down to the arm itself) there are strong steel cables anchored to it. It is the steel cable that is being pulled when the head moves up, and let go so that the plunger is free with gravity to fall down into the drill shaft.
The rod moves up and down, and so does the cable that is below the head, the rest of the head simply provides, as I said before, a fixed horizontal distance to the horizontal axis of the moving rod, so that all move on the same unchanging vertical axis.

Maybe this image from the same real-world oil pump in various phases will demonstrate this principle.

http://blog.tran.su/wp-content/uploads/ ... 30x486.jpg

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Re: Change to the oil pump graphic

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I would agree with you on this one
+1
Gonna start playing again with 0.16 build.
That's all.

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