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Subject: 
Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:26:38 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, John Barnes wrote:
In lugnet.robotics, David Koudys wrote:
I read that, I just decided to be a little more apparent, as in 'Gee Steve, send
me some balls!' ;)

I have a grande total of, wait for it... 1 soccer ball, and it came with my
Brickfest '04 set.

At your convenience, of course :)


Or someone who owns a soccer ball could measure it and publish the size.

Most craft stores sell a selection of little wooden balls. It might be cheaper
to buy a few about the right size rather than paying to mail genuine Lego ones?
Of course, I'm not a purist :) Would a wooden ball start to infect the rest of
the contraption's Lego parts I wonder .....

"Oh no! Look! A knot hole is forming in that Technic beam over there!!!"

JB

Sure enough, that'll happen.  What about the sawdust envy that LEGO soccer balls
will inevitably suffer from?

Ed


Subject: 
Re: The Great Ball Contraption
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:08:02 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Ed McGlynn wrote:
In lugnet.robotics, John Barnes wrote:
In lugnet.robotics, David Koudys wrote:
I read that, I just decided to be a little more apparent, as in 'Gee Steve, send
me some balls!' ;)

I have a grande total of, wait for it... 1 soccer ball, and it came with my
Brickfest '04 set.

At your convenience, of course :)


Or someone who owns a soccer ball could measure it and publish the size.

Most craft stores sell a selection of little wooden balls. It might be cheaper
to buy a few about the right size rather than paying to mail genuine Lego ones?
Of course, I'm not a purist :) Would a wooden ball start to infect the rest of
the contraption's Lego parts I wonder .....

"Oh no! Look! A knot hole is forming in that Technic beam over there!!!"

JB

Sure enough, that'll happen.  What about the sawdust envy that LEGO soccer balls
will inevitably suffer from?

Ed

This post will be overkill I am sure but this Bricklink store sells has 42
soccer balls $.10 US a piece

<http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=UBL>


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