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Can someone who has one of these white gears tell me what they are for? How are they different from the other 24-toothed gears? Is there perhaps a one-way ratchet inside each one, or do they spin freely on the axle? (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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(...) Hey Dave, Peeron is wrong on some of the 60's dates for grey. In 1963 (Christmas 1962 to be accurate) grey plates in 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and strange as it may seem 8x11 came into production. These early ones were Cellulose Acetate. They (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | SCLT braces for 10,000 visitors in 29 hours! (revised)
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(URL) SCLTC expects a crush of well over 10,000 visitors to pass by its current show at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum this weekend in just two brief 5 hour segments. The occasion is SCLTC’s third straight year at the annual December Nights (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX) !!
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| | Re:Re:Idea for trailer ramps
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Thanks for the comments, Larry and Jennifer. Hopefully the next pictures will be resized. The next folder of pictures should be of a heavy-roller. (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: problem: only one part visible
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(...) I'm not sure what you mean exactly by 'hide' here, but I suspect you've got 'draw to selection' turned on. It's under the Settings menu. When turned on only parts up to and including the selected part/s are displayed. (...) Select the part/s (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Light seeker
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(...) Why do you use two light sensors? I have made experience with one light sensor mounted on top of a motor driven and rotation sensored turret. The mechanics has two drawbacks. First, the geartrain between motor and light sensor is somewhat (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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By focusing on general sentiments of disappointment and broken promises, the (f)actual disadvantages of the color change were left out. Please make clear in the letter, that on a very practical level there are many ways in which both AFOLS *and* TLG (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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(...) Oops, wrong link... (URL) Yeah, grey *brick* was really uncommon until around 1984 when the castle (...) Cross between bored and curious I guess :) Once I realized how to do it rather quickly, it was pretty easy... Though admittedly writing a (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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(...) Parents (and, in theory, kids) are also on LUGNET. Nothing at all prevents an AFOL from writing a letter that emphasizes the parental perspective more than the AFOL perspective (if at all). An AFOL-parent has the advantage that they can be (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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(...) I didn't say profit was their only principle, I said it was a primary one. A company doesn't make changes just because they think it's an improvement. That improvement has to cut costs or increase revenue (via increased customer satisfaction (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: when is the .space computer of the month going to be updated?
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(...) either tomorrow or the day after. or maybe tuesday. no wait, you mean it wasn't updated yesterday? well, if it wasn't yesterday then we won't be able to update it until the third thursday of the month of Qubaznor (using the Kashyyk calendar, (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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(...) as making very late appearances... (...) Yeah, the earliest grey bricks I got were in classic space set 894 Tracking Station in 1979 (a 2x4 and a bunch of 1x1,2,3). (...) Yup! Must've been bored! ;] Thanx, KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Ontario, (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: IRONCLAD Space Frigate 34
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(...) Hm... I realize that part of the idea is to make it look like a big-'ol ironclad vessel, but Mark's right, as is it kinda looks plain. If it weren't called "Ironclad" I might not get the reference. Perhaps one way to emphasize the point would (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: IRONCLAD Space Frigate 34
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(...) Code. Dude. Seriously. -Grand Admiral .space Curator (URL) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Errors while installing brickOS 0.2.6.10
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(...) I highly recommend that you use my cygwin and brickOS installers. If you use them you will more than likely be up and running with brickOS in a matter of minutes. See my BricxCC page at (URL) are links to the two installers: (URL) Hansen (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IRONCLAD Space Frigate 34
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(...) near the rear. The black pod things on the sides back there are neat too. The interior access looks really good. The simple rectangular shape is really obvious when the side panels are off, but the details that you have on the surface and the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: New British Class 50 'Hoover' in Large-Logo Blue Livery
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(...) Big...and reliable! I go primarily by track gauge, which at 37.66mm is as near to 8mm:1ft or 1 stud:1ft as 16.5mm track is to the HO scale of 3.5mm:1ft. The British loading gauge is smaller than the US one. The maximum width (of the W6 gauge (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Lorentzian Time Warp Fighter
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(...) Well its not the red one is the only one that works, its the the time stream changes all objects that go post relativistic retroactively to red. This is known as red shift as a post relativist object it is moving away from us faster than where (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Using Code Pilot to control motorized cows
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Purists please skip this post as it involves non-LEGO sensors. Lacking an RCX, but loving the motorized cows ( (URL) ), I needed to find a way to control them with the code pilot (from set 8479 Barcode Multi-Set) I have. The only LEGO sensor that (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.codepilot, lugnet.trains)
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