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Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
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Date: 
Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:12:34 GMT
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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 but I could not figure out what the heck to do. Any
help that anyone can give me on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Tim

In lugnet.technic, Don Rogerson writes:
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

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.

Thanks, everyone, for your responses!

-jsj



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  Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
 
The .dat parts files come from LDraw. The easiest solution is to install LDraw (www.ldraw.org ) per their instructions, then install MLCAD in the LDraw directory, per their suggestion. Tim Hall wrote: > I downloaded MLCAD which, as I >see it, needs (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
 
(...) Assuming you correctly installed LDRAW and MLCAD or other GUI and now you want to look at downloaded *.files (models) You're trying to download *.dat files from Lugnet database or somewhere else, I guess. If it's so, than, probably, your (...) (21 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)

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