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Subject: 
Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
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Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:26:48 GMT
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Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.STOPSPAMMERScom>
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Steve Hassenplug writes:
> ho hum.  another day, another Great Ball Contraption.

Cool.  I'd love to start a GBC activity here in Potsdam, but .... we
need a reliable source of bulk balls.  It's nice of you to mail them
out to people, but we really need Lego to sell bulk balls.  How do we
convince them to do it?  Maybe we should create a fake Lego product,
the 2970 (to pick a number from the air), the Bulk Soccer Ball kit.
Then everybody calls S@H the same day and tries to order it.

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Subject: 
Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:01:36 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> wrote:

I'd love to start a GBC activity here in Potsdam,
but .... we need a reliable source of bulk balls.

   Before Steve gave me some balls (oh, the straight lines...), I acquired
enough to run a few modules of my own from various Bricklink purchases. You
could do a GBC by simply mandating that everybody who wants to add to a GBC
brings there own supply of balls, but I think this project could tap out
Bricklink. But I agree, it would be nice if at least a few other folks could
acquire a large lot of soccer balls in other geographic regions.

we really need Lego to sell bulk balls.

   There is, I've heard tell, some PaB (not in the States, but UK IMS) that had
soccer balls for bulk sale. I know you can get a lot of soccer balls in a PaB
cup (a small cup here in the States holds about 180 - I don't have enough (yet!)
to tell how many a large PaB cup holds, but it looks to be around 300).

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Brian Davis

   
         
   
Subject: 
Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:03:58 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> wrote:

I'd love to start a GBC activity here in Potsdam,
but .... we need a reliable source of bulk balls.

   Before Steve gave me some balls (oh, the straight lines...), I acquired
enough to run a few modules of my own from various Bricklink purchases. You
could do a GBC by simply mandating that everybody who wants to add to a GBC
brings there own supply of balls, but I think this project could tap out
Bricklink. But I agree, it would be nice if at least a few other folks could
acquire a large lot of soccer balls in other geographic regions.

Well, I do have a very large suppily, and despite sending out hundreds of soccer
balls, I've just scratched the surface.

I have a whole stack of requests, just waiting to be boxed and shipped.  I just need
to get to the post office during work hours...  (sorry)

Steve

 

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