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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, “David Koudys” davidkoudys@gmail.com wrote:
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I probably should have changed the title as I’m x-posting to a different
group. Back in the heyday here, I woulda been raked over the coals for that
(1)...
Dave K
- :)
- but since there’s no one here to stop me... (3)
- Oh, and replying at the top of the message (2)
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, “David Koudys” davidkoudys@gmail.com wrote:
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So here’s some prelim pics and a few vids of the axle sorter working--
https://flic.kr/s/aHskxshhby
As I said on my Flickr page (and below), I’ve been thinking about this since
someone mentioned this at an rtlT event years ago, but didn’t work on it
until this video--
https://youtu.be/9JClgd0bBvc
So I blatantly ripped off the sorting setup, but wanted to use a drum
instead of a scissor lift. Was that the right thing to do? Eh...
I’m not done yet and it’s not 100%. As a matter of fact, I really didn’t
have time to test this before I packed it up for our LEGO dinner tonite...
So there’ll be future iterations.
The good bit, I tried to make it break down into a few smaller pieces for
ease of transport, That’ll make it easier to move around and update
Dave K
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, “David Koudys” davidkoudys@gmail.com wrote:
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Or March Dinner, since it, like Valentines Day, doesn’t fall on this
particular day...
Anyway,
Friday, March 9th
Swiss Chalet
Dundas St Etobicoke
7 p.m.
I may bring along an axle sorter (that I’m currently making portable)
that’ll run on a battery box, so if ya wanna bring some axles for
sorting... :)
Dave K
-getting back into building mode, specifically ‘old school’ technic stuff
:)
--was going to haul out an RCX for the sorter, but wanted the challenge of
doing
it straight battery
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Hi David,
I will be there too. Long time since I last participated to anything Lego
related, but I need to feel alive again. Perhaps we can revive the group a
bit...
Cheers,
Gabriel.
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I probably should have changed the title as I’m x-posting to a different group.
Back in the heyday here, I woulda been raked over the coals for that (1)...
Dave K
- :)
- but since there’s no one here to stop me... (3)
- Oh, and replying at the top of the message (2)
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, “David Koudys” davidkoudys@gmail.com wrote:
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So here’s some prelim pics and a few vids of the axle sorter working--
https://flic.kr/s/aHskxshhby
As I said on my Flickr page (and below), I’ve been thinking about this since
someone mentioned this at an rtlT event years ago, but didn’t work on it
until this video--
https://youtu.be/9JClgd0bBvc
So I blatantly ripped off the sorting setup, but wanted to use a drum instead
of a scissor lift. Was that the right thing to do? Eh...
I’m not done yet and it’s not 100%. As a matter of fact, I really didn’t
have time to test this before I packed it up for our LEGO dinner tonite...
So there’ll be future iterations.
The good bit, I tried to make it break down into a few smaller pieces for
ease of transport, That’ll make it easier to move around and update
Dave K
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, “David Koudys” davidkoudys@gmail.com wrote:
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Or March Dinner, since it, like Valentines Day, doesn’t fall on this
particular day...
Anyway,
Friday, March 9th
Swiss Chalet
Dundas St Etobicoke
7 p.m.
I may bring along an axle sorter (that I’m currently making portable)
that’ll run on a battery box, so if ya wanna bring some axles for sorting...
:)
Dave K
-getting back into building mode, specifically ‘old school’ technic stuff :)
--was going to haul out an RCX for the sorter, but wanted the challenge of
doing
it straight battery
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So here’s some prelim pics and a few vids of the axle sorter working--
https://flic.kr/s/aHskxshhby
As I said on my Flickr page (and below), I’ve been thinking about this since
someone mentioned this at an rtlT event years ago, but didn’t work on it until
this video--
https://youtu.be/9JClgd0bBvc
So I blatantly ripped off the sorting setup, but wanted to use a drum instead of
a scissor lift. Was that the right thing to do? Eh...
I’m not done yet and it’s not 100%. As a matter of fact, I really didn’t have
time to test this before I packed it up for our LEGO dinner tonite...
So there’ll be future iterations.
The good bit, I tried to make it break down into a few smaller pieces for ease
of transport, That’ll make it easier to move around and update
Dave K
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, “David Koudys” davidkoudys@gmail.com wrote:
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Or March Dinner, since it, like Valentines Day, doesn’t fall on this
particular day...
Anyway,
Friday, March 9th
Swiss Chalet
Dundas St Etobicoke
7 p.m.
I may bring along an axle sorter (that I’m currently making portable) that’ll
run on a battery box, so if ya wanna bring some axles for sorting... :)
Dave K
-getting back into building mode, specifically ‘old school’ technic stuff :)
--was going to haul out an RCX for the sorter, but wanted the challenge of
doing
it straight battery
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Or March Dinner, since it, like Valentines Day, doesn't fall on this particular
day...
Anyway,
Friday, March 9th
Swiss Chalet
Dundas St Etobicoke
7 p.m.
I may bring along an axle sorter (that I'm currently making portable) that'll
run on a battery box, so if ya wanna bring some axles for sorting... :)
Dave K
-getting back into building mode, specifically 'old school' technic stuff :)
--was going to haul out an RCX for the sorter, but wanted the challenge of doing
it straight battery
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Hi all,
as some of you may have noticed, we have upgraded LUGNET to use SSL encryption
across all pages.
As a downside, we are currently experiencing a couple of minor issues because
some pages are getting delivered as "mixed content" (which you will notice by
your browser not showing a "padlock" sign, in some cases even an exclamation
mark next to the LUGNET URL) and some scripts are not yet properly included
using https protocol.
While we are working to fix this, we appreciate your feedback in case you find
anything that appears to be broken.
Please send your requests directly to my LUGNET email address which you will
find on this website.
Thanks,
Jerry
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In lugnet.space, “Douglas R. Clark” dclark73@sbcglobal.net wrote:
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Voting has stated today in the Lego Ideas “Moments in Space” contest. The
winner may have their design turned into a promotional give-away set.
My entry is the Cosmic Sentinel - a small neo-classic space scouting/fighter
ship
Link to Contest Entry
Thanks for looking! If you like the Cosmic Sentinel, please register and
vote for it.
drc’
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That is a very nice looking ship!
Dave K
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In lugnet.space, “Douglas R. Clark” dclark73@sbcglobal.net wrote:
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Voting has stated today in the Lego Ideas “Moments in Space” contest. The
winner may have their design turned into a promotional give-away set.
My entry is the Cosmic Sentinel - a small neo-classic space scouting/fighter
ship
Link to Contest Entry
Thanks for looking! If you like the Cosmic Sentinel, please register and
vote for it.
drc
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Crud - had wrong link embedded in original post.
Correct Link
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Voting has stated today in the Lego Ideas “Moments in Space” contest. The
winner may have their design turned into a promotional give-away set.
My entry is the Cosmic Sentinel - a small neo-classic space scouting/fighter
ship
Link to Contest Entry
Thanks for looking! If you like the Cosmic Sentinel, please register and vote
for it.
drc
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Well, not falling on Valentines Day...
Friday, February 9th
Swiss Chalet
Dundas St Etobicoke
7 p.m.
Barring any 'weather event', we will be there.
Dave K
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Hello everyone still reading these forums!!!
Anyway, I won’t pull a ‘Dave K-ism’ and go on about basically nothing before I
get to my point (which I’m already doing...) and just post this--
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmeBTQ9z
I’ve been thinking about rebuilding my Space Shuttle for a very long time. It
is, imho, the best ‘classic’ Technic set that TLC has ever produced, and I was
very fortunate to acquire one just by being on LUGNET back in the day...
Specifically about this build--I recently acquired a friends LEGO collection (he
is migrating out of the hobby to pursue other interests) and in his collection
were the parts to his 8480. So I knew I had enough parts for at least 2.
But I also figured that, with the evolution of my ever expanding collection that
I might have enuf parts for 3.
So I decided, without pulling out all the parts before hand, that I’d just give
it a go to see if I could build 3 8480 Space Shuttles, and, to make it more
interesting, build all 3 at exactly the same time--step by step.
Which is what I did. This proved, at least in my mind, more difficult than if I
had built one at a time. But I wasn’t shying away from difficulty, and I rather
enjoyed the challenge.
A few items of note--
I only had 2 solid black technic turntables (my original and buddy’s original),
so one shuttle has a black/trans clear turntable.
I also found out, quite close to the end, that I didn’t have enough white lift
arms for the shuttle bay doors. I had mine, which have yellowed form the first
time my shuttle was together. My friend let me know that he has a bag of lift
arms for me the next time I see him that contain his white lift arms. I’ve also
ordered more from Bricklink to finish the third.
White 1 x 8 axles as well were in short supply so those are on order as well.
I just made it for my amount of white Technic 1x10 beams. I was one short until
I ransacked my entire collection of unsorted bins and found one. So that was a
relief. Finding this beam probably took up half the time of the build.
The original 9v wires, as we know, are in the process of decay. I found some
‘glossy’ wires in my collection and used them where I could, so at least one of
the shuttles has a good wiring setup. The other two will need the 69 stud wires
replaced because some of the rubber insulation is completely missing and
there’ll be shorts. I have started the process of rewiring my 9v connector
wires. That’s a job for another post.
Other than that, this was sheer joy. It’s been a very long time when I just sat
down to build something complicated (albeit ‘old school’. I also didn’t even
bother to dig up the actual paper instructions and just went on Peeron (btw,
Peeron, for the first and original source for these things, has the CLEAREST
instructions uploaded--Brickset, et al, all have grainy/pixelly instruction
manuals that are difficult to build from)
So the plan is as follows--
I am acquiring the missing white pieces, and will be taking all three shuttles
apart. Some of the pieces are very dusty and some are yellowed. I will be
going back into my collection and replacing the yellowed parts, making sure I
used old grey and old dark grey (I tried during the build to make sure, but
think I have a few joiners and such that are the new bley/dkbley) and will
rebuild these 3 shuttles. That time (when it happens) will be filmed using the
GoPros and I will try to get a good video up. 6 pictures and a messy build desk
doesn’t do this justice.
Anyway, hope life finds each of you well in your respective worlds.
Dave K
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, "David Koudys" <davidkoudys@gmail.com> wrote:
> More cut 'n paste ('cause I'm so very tired from reading the various threads and
> postings here on LUGNET--it really made me kinda hungry as well,--can't figure
> that out...)
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> Yes, there will be an non-rtlToronto dinner this Friday at the place that
> previously hosted the rtlToronto dinners..
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> I'll just cut 'n paste from the previous e-mail because I'm lazy today--
>
> I should be there, probably with the missus and our son.
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> We'll probably stop off at the lego store at sherway first to buy stuff...
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> And then, probably a little before 7, we'll arrive here--
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> Swiss Chalet -
> Dundas St Etobicoke
>
> Dave K
Well, mother nature had other ideas. THe +7 degrees this a.m. has turned into
-7 this afternoon and iwth snow and ice... so The Big Smoke will not have the
wonderness of our collective presences this evening.
Sorry everyone.
Dave K
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More cut 'n paste ('cause I'm so very tired from reading the various threads and
postings here on LUGNET--it really made me kinda hungry as well,--can't figure
that out...)
Yes, there will be an non-rtlToronto dinner this Friday at the place that
previously hosted the rtlToronto dinners..
I'll just cut 'n paste from the previous e-mail because I'm lazy today--
I should be there, probably with the missus and our son.
We'll probably stop off at the lego store at sherway first to buy stuff...
And then, probably a little before 7, we'll arrive here--
Swiss Chalet -
Dundas St Etobicoke
Dave K
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Yes, there will be an non-rtlToronto dinner this Friday at the place that
previously hosted the rtlToronto dinners..
I'll just cut 'n paste from the previous e-mail because I'm lazy today--
I should be there, probably with the missus and our son.
We'll probably stop off at the lego store at sherway first to buy stuff...
And then, probably a little before 7, we'll arrive here--
Swiss Chalet -
Dundas St Etobicoke
Dave K
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I should be there, probably with the missus and our son.
We'll probably stop off at the lego store at sherway first to buy stuff...
And then, probably a little before 7, we'll arrive here--
Swiss Chalet -
Dundas St Etobicoke
This is not an rtl dinner, it's just a bunch of friends hanging out...
Dave K
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It'll be verry, verry scary, boys and girls!!!
For I will be there!!! (muahahahahahaaaaaaaaa....)
To make it scarier, there is a rumour that Jeff vW will be there!
I'm also bringing a very small stack of dark bley train track that I'll give to
anyone who wants it just to get it out of my basement.
Some of the bley has powered rails :)
Anyway, I'm having a burger at Swiss Chalet around 7 p.m. tonite, and if others
want to come and talk about stuff such as lego or something...
We don't have to call it an rtlToronto (1) thing, just some friends hanging out
talking about our favourite hobby (well, it's mine--we can talk about if it's
yours :) )
Dave K
1 - because I'm not taking over rtlT. I wasnt' there at the start, and rtlT
will always be 'the baby' of the C & C (2) show--two people I'll always respect
and admire wrt this chosen hobby of ours...
2 - I was cleaning up my lego room and I came across some train motors that were
DCC enabled and they have a CDP(tm) (3) sticker on them designating stuff that
we thought was important at the time and I had a fond reminiscence of how
wonderful the past times were in rtlT and how utterly fantastic it was just
being around y'all
3 - Calum Designed and Produced (4)
4 - Yeah, there may have been some over production and pendantitry going on over
the course of rtlT back in teh day, but it was all worth it, man! ALL. OF. IT!
(read the threads here and just let the sheer awesomeness wash over you....(5))
5 - this is NOT saying that there wasn't awesomeness in other parts of
LUGNET--I'm shaking my fist in your general direction over there! You know who
you are... (6)
6 - Maybe I'll peruse some OT-D just for old timeys (7) sake
7 - it's Dot Commmmmmmmmmmmm......
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, "Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote:
> I think we will make a half-hearted attempt to be there tonight just because I
> want to make it the lego store.
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> B Medinets
We made it to the Lego Store and then stopped by Swiss Chalet to see if there
were anyone there. Alas there was no one that showed up. :(
So the missus and I went to five guys near by and got patty melts... as in
Grill Cheese with hamburger patties. Very Good.
The guy at the Lego store swore up and down that the $35 had to be Ninjago
product to get the freebie giveaway.
So I had to make a call after I verified with calendar that it wasn't specific
product. So we received them after the fact.
No Thanks associate from the Lego Store (sherway). Thank you to the Lego
Customer Service.
B. Medinets
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I think we will make a half-hearted attempt to be there tonight just because I
want to make it the lego store.
B Medinets
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