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(...) Well, we just wrapped up our holiday party and ran back to the shop to put the finishing touches on the Fenway model a few hours ago. I gotta say this was a great but challenging and nerve-wracking model to work on. Sheesh, there's not a (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !
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| | Re: Grade Crossing Signal Thingy...
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(...) Try braking. This is from memory so might be all wet... If you just turn power off, the motor coasts to a stop. But supposedly you can send the motor a speed 0 command, I think, and the motor stops right then, frozen in place. It takes more (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Why I have been posting all this stuff to Starship lately.
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(...) All very nice. This was my original plan, as well, though I never stated it publicly. I figured this: If Faction A mass-produces something and puts it on sale, surely Faction A wouldn't be the only ones to buy it. Therefore, there'd be others (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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| | Re: Blacktron Mining Operation Discovered
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(...) Very nice! Wow, that base is huge. Too bad that black doesn't photograph well. I'll bet that it's even more impressive in person. Oh wait, you've disassembled it, haven't you? I like the way that you made the triangular logos on the walls (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: MPD Builder ?
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(...) Here's a link to an early test alpha of my program: (URL) now you can only mkae MPD and not extract file from them. I'm calling it MPD Editor until I think of something better. If you test it out, let me know if there is anything majorly wrong (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Grade Crossing Signal Thingy...
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(...) The way that my design ended up, that isn't an issue. The arm just goes up and down as the wheel/motor rotates. It doesn't go past horizontal or vertical positions (by luck, not design :^) ) (...) There's a weak spot in my signals above the (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Good Grief! It's Snoopy
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(...) Brilliant! I love the hinges for the eyes. Great work! Chris Perron (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | It's over, please...
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Um, you do realize that the issue has ended. Please stop facilitating the discussion. I've been enlightened and have changed my ways of going about posting messages here and seeing the AFOL community in general. Ergo: It's over. Let it die. I was (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Memories..la...di...da
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FX Star Patroler. Previously all I had was Lock Blocks, parents didn't want to pay for the good stuff. All but one set of my Classic collection came from other-than-parents. (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Legoland Sierksdorf
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(...) Thanks for these pictures, I found them very interesting. It shows that many of the park designs did not change for years, for example the boats (the ones that you sit in) are the same as the ones in the later parks. Interesting there is some (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Brute Force Brick
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Joe Strout wrote: > Can we hack apart LEGO connection (...) Didn't Lego also stop selling bulk packs of wires too? I thought I read that somewhere here. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brute Force Brick
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(...) I do see this as a pretty big impediment to custom LEGO electric parts. I've run into this myself, just trying to make some simple light units. My solution was this: Using silver paint, paint leads on the side of a 2x2 brick (with the center (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Grade Crossing Signal Thingy...
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(...) Easiest way is to have a stop of some kind at both extremeties of movement, and introduce some kind of slip into the drive mechanism, like rubber bands or a slip clutch (URL) each cycle runs the motor longer than it needs, and the clutch slips (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Call for a WILUG
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Ok, just trying to see if there are enuf people to have our own LUG. Respond here or email me at nofcarcanaguespam@no...rr.comspam . Fred (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.us.wi)
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| | Re: Pinguim: Some very interesting techniques
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(...) I was looking at this gallery today too and was very impressed. Make yourself known! Tim (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Cats and Lego
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(...) My dog completely ignores my Lego, the nearest he has come to destroying anything Lego related was when he stretched and kicked the CTRL key off my laptop while I was MLCading. However I do find that the solution to complicated SNOT type (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: StahlcFaust Heavy Hovertank--Entry for Military Hover-Vehicle Contest
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In lugnet.space, Magnus Lauglo wrote: <snip> (...) Actually, I didn't really intend to imitate any tank... it was supposed to be sort of an uber-version of my Ravager and Superravager hovertanks. However, I suppose that with similar function comes (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: 10152 Back at Shop@Home...
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(...) hehehe!! :D That would rock much!! I had it set to United Kingdom, and it said that the set would be "coming February, 2005." I thought they had run out of both the granules and the actual sets. My thought was similar, that this would be for (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Discussion of Train Table Sizes
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(...) (snip) (...) Thanks Larry. I happen to think we are working too hard but for most of us, the challenge of building something new and interesting was just as much fun as presenting and exhibiting. My preference is now for a more permanent build (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Memories..la...di...da
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(...) Turn in your Evil card on the way out. You are no longer Evil Wayne. You are now Milquetoast Wayne. Hmf. Your Lord and Master, 3GA (URL) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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