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(...) I spoke to Lego S@H about two weeks ago - they said 8479 is still in stock for $164 USD, but I didn't ask how many they have. I'm on the fence as to whether I should jump on one. I just spent close to $300 on ebay recently so it's a question (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Proposed 'Legomodule' standard
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(...) I agree completely. That's why we try to do that exact thing on our 'common' sections - the sections that *always* line up next to each other. Building vertical is good - it adds a lot of interest and visual appeal... JohnG, GMLTC (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego Modular tables
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(...) "How to Win Friends", by Larry P... <g, d & R!> JohnG, GMLTC (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Black large Technic gear?
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(...) The black turntable comes with the 8480 but with other sets too, because I have two of them but just own one single 8480. Sorry I can't remember the which set now. Mario (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Minifig Armies?
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(...) Well, I do know that there's two female figs in the King Leo's Castle set, but I say more women in the smaller sets! Make it cheap for us to find wives to all those poor peasant farmers! -Chris (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | FA(ebay) Legotrainset 126 from 1970
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Last hours. (URL) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: new part - 71014 Castle Greatsword
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(...) OK, I copied the relevant lines into a separate DAT file, and -- well, it wasn't so much that the edge lines were inside the torii (they were) as that I put the "cones" (for making the torii) in the wrong places. :-P~~~ I've fixed this here. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: "Glowing" Lights in POV-RAY (2nd attempt)
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(...) Hello, 1. To make a light stronger you can use a multiplier. For example: color rgb 2*<1,1,1> (double the light of the light source) or color rgb 0.5*<1,1,1> (half the light of the light source) or any other multiplier you like. 2. You can use (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Minifig Armies?
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(...) form (...) Wow, this is starting to sound like a mail-order-bride service! "Have you gotten your wife pack yet?" "Yeah, I'm up to 400 soldiers and 96 wives!" :) I'm wondering who the first female will be to reply to this message saying: "Oh, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 5542 Black Thunder (no doors no windows)
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Train doors tend to go for $2-5 each for the plain-colored ones, printed ones can go MUCH higher. Train windows are going to be really cheap in a few months with the soccer vans coming out with red/blu/black/white windows. The glass, however, will (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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| | Re: LDraw Add-On 2.1.2 Now Available
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(...) (I knew that! But I did double-check the code, to be sure it wasn't doing something I had forgotten) (...) That's bizarre. No, it's not. Well, sort of. (...) OK, this is definitely fixed in the 2.1.3 update, which I *hope* to upload this (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDRAW models and pictures
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(...) Hello Bram, I have the box from set 6596 so i scanned the front and side of the box and i used the scans as an image map. The box consists of just two polygons, the top and side of the box (since the other sides are not visible i didn't make (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Proposed 'Legomodule' standard
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(...) Terminology alert. I'd tend to call sections that are designed never to mate with anything else something other than "common", They're more or less unique, since the interface across the module boundary is non standard and unique to that (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: lego in the toy hall of fame
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(...) Steve (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO availability in Europe vs. US
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Scott A <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Frx54C.Hut@lugnet.com... (...) is (...) Cybermaster was (is?) available last year at Zany Brainy stores in PA. (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I just died and went to lego heaven...
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(...) In formal writing, your teacher has a good point. In conversational writing, who cares? Steve (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Making Lego airborne
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Hi, I want to create a light-weight tethered helicopter and was wondering if it was possible at all. Is the micro-motor powerful enough to lift a small helicopter. What about the geared motor or the older motor that is found in the space shuttle. I (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Construction site.
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The VA Outlet store had 8462s for $93 on 12-Mar-00. IF LSAH is out of them, they will ship. Search .shopping for the phone number. -Rob. Steve Borden <sborden@mdc.net> wrote in message news:Frws75.BJM@lugnet.com... (...) Tow (...) might be (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Black large Technic gear?
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The 8446 Crane Truck from 1999 is the other Technic set that has this part. "Mario Ferrari" <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message news:FrxKEE.GG9@lugnet.com... (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Making Lego airborne
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(...) I seriously doubt you'll get any Lego motor to lift itself off the ground. I tried to use a Lego propeller and the older motor to push a small wheeled vehicle *horizontally* across the kitchen floor with very little success. I can think of two (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!
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(...) It isn't actually in yet. When the called me, they had two 6078 left (none left after me, sorry), some divers (6560 and maybe another, no 6557), some Technic (8440, fire engine), and maybe some other stuff. The 6078s are the only thing I went (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Making Lego airborne
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(...) I'm glad you tried this. I've been meaning to do it for a while... you've saved me a little time.... now where shall I waste it? Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Making Lego airborne
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Neither the micro-motor nor the geared motor turn anywhere near fast enough to even generate a stiff breeze, much less lift something. The old 9V motor is faster, but probably not fast enough. Daniel (...) -- "Being humble is why I'm a great (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Last of my Castle Stuff...Last time I'm posting this!!
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This is the last time i'm gonna post this...it seems everyone who I offered it to or told them about this, I don't get an e-mail back!! I know that at least 3 or so people here want particular items off this list, even if I have to take apart some (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Making Lego airborne
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(...) If you ever make it work, please, post here the how-to !!! :) ...LEGO's *heavy* so, maybe a custom-made loooong, *light*, *strong*, large(?) heli-blades ? hmmm... carbon-fiber alike material ?! ...I doubt that 1 (2?, 3?) LEGO motor(s) is/are (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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(...) Two big things that seriously bugged me about Time Cruisers: 1. Prices were too high. 2. Because of the high concentration of speciality parts, and the diverse nature of these speciality parts, it was very hard to build anything substantial (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: lego in the toy hall of fame
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(...) For the record, 1958 was the year that the "binding brick" was first sold to the public (at that time LEGO was only sold in continental non-communist Europe), that was when they added tubes on the bottoms. The only bricks made in '58 were (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Handyboard in mix with SSC II Servo Controller
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Hi again, Don't be confused la. I think you had made a little mistake. In order to interface SSC with HB, the serial connection is not by the telephone line. The connections is done by connecting the serial data pin on the SSC. Remind you that it is (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
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(...) Here's a web page with tons of old HP calculators: (URL) used one of the early desktop models at my dad's work. I also used the original Wang calculator at his work. Fun stuff. I've got an HP 25C at home which I picked several years ago at a (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Georgia LEGO Outlet is Cool!
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Phew, I may actually get some stuff. If it's in tomorrow or even next week I'll try to make a trip up there and post an inventory again. I'm only an hour away so it's an evening trip for me. Matt (...) thing. I (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Minifig What scale are they??
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(...) The classic LEGO scale (1 door = 3 bricks high) used by LEGO from 1955-1972 is in almost perfect HO train scale. Gary Istok (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: "Glowing" Lights in POV-RAY (2nd attempt)
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(...) Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! How I have looked for that. (...) Once again, thank you! /Tore (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | RE: Minifig What scale are they??
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(...) This fact was hammered home after I did a couple of thinkgs on the weekend. 1. Played with my kids and build another 4-stud wide big rig. Small, realistic, high vroomability factor. 2. Started sorting my kids LEGO and found selection of (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Just how sturdy are your trains?
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Christopher Masi <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:38DB335C.B5F154...ane.edu... [snip] (...) I think the monorail looks tremendously better using 1x4 gray tiles instead of plates to join track sections. Mike Poindexter (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Making Lego airborne
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(...) I think your best bet might be to supplement the lift by possibly making a dirigible. I agree with the statement that Lego's are heavy and motors are weak, so this would seem to be the best suggestion. You could still have it RCX controlled, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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(...) Arrrrr, these here castles lubbers be not informed about us piratical types (I be having letters of marque and reprisal, I swear) love of Timmy. We be not a'hatin' 'im. So, all you pirate people run for cover, 'cause once again.... TIMMIES! (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Handyboard Upload
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Has anyone out there ever uploaded data collected by the Handyboard back to the PC? I need to get some distances measured by our sonar sensors back up to the PC for use in another application. If you can help me, I'd really apprieciate it. (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | FYI: winning bid was $15.50
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(...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Making Lego airborne
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(...) Here comes a stupid question: What is a dirigible??? Ram (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Time cruisers or Time losers? (was:Re: Pirate/castle helmet...)
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(...) Well, one can like the sets without liking the theme, yea I know, it sounds weird. I think for me the problem is in the details. The Flying Time Vessel is a nice concept, but just seems lacking in some way. The Mystic Mountain Time Lab is a (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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