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Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:37:08 GMT
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I downloaded your .dat, Jeff and built one last night. Very cool. One thing for
anyone else building it from the .dat - the gears that engage the shifter arm
aren't shown in the .dat, but you can see them clearly in the photos on Jeff's
page.
I put some wide wheels on mine, and tried it on the living room carpet (lots of
friction). It shifted into low gear and took right off!
In lugnet.technic, Jeff Jahr writes:
> In lugnet.technic, Jeff Jahr writes:
> > I made a three speed, fully mechanical, automatic transmission a few weeks
> > ago, and put a description of it on a web page. It uses a locking
> > differential to select the gears, and I've not seen that done in lego
> > before. If you are interested, the URL is:
> >
> > http://ichabod.last-outpost.com/~malakai/lego/index.html
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> I've updated the page with some answers to the questions that I've been
> asked, including the 'Is there an ldraw file somewhere' one. The answer to
> that question is, yes, there is now. See the page for details.
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> Thanks, everyone, for your responses!
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> -jsj
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| (...) for (...) Jeff's (...) I missed a set of gears in the .dat? Rats. I'll try to get that fixed. (...) of (...) Excellent! Send me a jpg, I'll put it on the page. ;') -jsj (22 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
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| I realize this thread is really old but I just got interested in it. I was wondering how to download the instructions. I downloaded MLCAD which, as I see it, needs .dat files and all I can get are .txt files. This is coming from an extreme newbie (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) asked, including the 'Is there an ldraw file somewhere' one. The answer to that question is, yes, there is now. See the page for details. Thanks, everyone, for your responses! -jsj (22 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
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