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  Re: Wire routing
 
The conductor plate gets you away from having to build a recessed area for the 2x2x2p wire plate. How did you do that anyway? I hit this issue and poked around and finally consulted to oricle, James Mathis, HE TOLD ME TO DO IT THIS WAY! ;) SteveB (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
 
(...) Hi Lars, I'd prefer that the format is unchanged. Right now LPub post-proceses the one file, greying parts as needed, adjusting camera settings for orthographic, and creating new colors for the greyed pieces.... I'd really rather *not* have to (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
i completly agree. OnDrew J. Hartigan 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: MOC4100: Cranetruck
 
(...) Don't sell yourself short. :) Creating good models with a limited selection of parts is an artform... if you ask me. With a large (I hesistate to use the word 'unlimited') selection of parts even an average builder can likely create more or (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: The Great Ball Contraption 2.0
 
In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote: (snip) (...) (snip) Nevermind the controls, how'd you build the hopper? ;-) I really like your solution, with the rotating arm that unloads it, creating an auto-reset for the hopper. I've been frustrated (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Wire routing
 
(...) Nope. Just the 2x2 wire connector straight onto the motor. Of course there is a tile on top of the wire connector and the layered plate floor/frame has a cutout, I'm pretty sure that's not the source of the resistance, I tested that with 2 (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
 
(...) I am anything but an expert on this area, but will not the parts, 3001_dot_dat and so on, also be defined multiple times? (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: surrender, you're surrounded!
 
(...) The issue wasn't explicitly stated as such. The issue was explicitly stated, in the original post, as coming from the AFOL community, not just you. (...) ANd you should, indeed, state your opinion, but make it abundantly clear that it is your (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
Dear Calum: I disagree with you entirely. (...) Really? I think some people wished for the color issue to go away, didn't get their wish, and whined like petulant brats. (...) Nobody asked you to write any such letters. But don't slander the right (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
 
(...) For newbies I think it's nice that the POV file is self-contained and ready-to-render. However, using certain coming options you can exclude camera and lights. Why would you like submodels in separate .inc files ? Only to have a smaller (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  The game's afoot! (was re: Battle)
 
Ok my Pugnacious Potentates, Bellicose Brigands and Confused Combatants, This Sunday in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, the battlefield stands ready for a festival the like of which few combatants will see the end: To the north, the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Lego Studios Question
 
(...) Is the studios camera the same electronics as the one sold with 9731 Vision Command ? If so, you might google for Vision Command driver. I was able to find an OS-X driver for mine via that method. (although of course the Vision Command (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Civil War!
 
(...) I believe the official TLC names for all the colors are in this list... (URL) #199 and #208 are suspected to be the correct entries for the 'new' shades of gray. Ray (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: MOC4100: Cranetruck
 
In lugnet.announce.moc, Nathanael Kuipers wrote: SNIP (...) DUDE! that rocks! Long live 4100 (& drooling to get 4883!) Jeff (brother in creator set alternate models) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX)
 
  Re: Wire routing
 
Hello Larry, here is another weird idea that might help or not ... If, wherever you are currently routing the cable, you give it one whole turn, wouldn't that make sure there is at least one place along the cable length that allows the cable to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: civilized people
 
(...) Yeah me too!!!!!!!..... Don't make me write an ~open~ letter requesting it!!!! Or you could drop the "KING" title and become Prime Minister or Governor General. Janey "Red Brick" (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test.foo, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
Ooooh! :( What a pessimistic AFOL you are, William! (...) Yes, they're trying to grow a segment of their market. That gives "us" influence as customers, little as it may be. Did we get SYSTEM-color packs with gray plates and bricks through Jake, or (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  PLUGfest 2005a - Registo histórico
 
Olá, criançadaaa! Eis-me de regresso aos textos cronísticos, desta feita para relatar o primeiro encontro de 2005. Dada a sua natureza como "encontro-relâmpago", posso afirmar que foi o primeiro em que o timing foi integralmente respeitado, de forma (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.pt)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
So what if people complain? What you call petulant brats, I call passionate enthusiasts. It’s all relative. And more so, in the end, what’s worse… Those who complain, or those who complain about the complainers. At least these people have a cause, (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote: [a bunch] Hey Calum, To be fair, when there "was" a lot of ranting on LUGNET about the colour change, some of us recommended that those folks instead do something constructive about it, for example, (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for discussion!
 
Hello! (...) This is also a letter that I would sign without hesitation. Johannes Koehler (27), Germany (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for discussion!
 
In lugnet.color, Scott Lyttle wrote: snip (...) Oooh much better. But I'll sign both! -Bryan (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
 
  Re: Wire routing
 
(...) Oh crap, that won't work. There's simply no way to get a 2x2 electric connector through a technic hole without quantum physics. I guess I could attach a 2x4 technic plate and leave it on the train pin. Rob (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  IR Tower Building
 
Dear List, I am without an IR tower for my Mindtsorms kit. I have built two of the schematics here: (URL) of the ones I tried work. I tried the one by John Barnes, and the hardwire cable. I do not know enough about schematics to read the OEM design. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: (MOC) 36-gun Frigate RTS LEGOMALEE
 
(...) Not at all. Several people have commented that they thought my ships, the (URL) Misérable> and the (URL) HMLS Intractable> were the same size, until they saw them in person (or the comparison pics). The Mis is 6 centre sections, the Intracty (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
 
  Re: Wire routing
 
(...) Oh almost forgot an LDR file, theres's one linked on this page: (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Wire routing
 
(...) LOL (...) None of my locos use baseplates. I've found the best way is to have a 2x2 hole right next to the technic plate you attach the motor to, and attach the connector to the motor with the wires pointing towards the attachment pin. The (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Wire routing
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IAn1Ew.21DE@lugnet.com... (...) Dang, and I wasn't going to make a post.... Oh well, It looks like there could be a need for me to get my Dremel out and try my hand at (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Civil War!
 
(snip) My army of Scala and Galidor figures wielding pieces of ZNAP weaponry are poised for war.... BTW--has anybody actually bothered to find out what the "official" new gray colors are called? Perhaps that should be referenced instead of "old gray (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
(...) Wait... would that be new brown...or old brown? (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Lego Studios Question
 
(snip) (...) I can confirm that the license agreement with Steven Spielberg and LEGO for LEGO Studios has ended. The LEGO stores cannot sell LEGO Studios anymore. Also, in conjunction with the cost savings that LEGO is pushing for, I would (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for discussion!
 
I'm putting my neck on the line (professional reasons), but for those of you who want the old colors back, perhaps a letter like this might have been better instead of associating with the accusatory tone of the German AFOL letter: To Mr. Jørgen Vig (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color) !! 
 
  Re: Wire routing
 
(...) I don't quite understand, either. Why can't you simply splice LEGO wire with thin wire, or back to itself? JOHN (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
 
  Re: Johnny five IS alive - first MOC
 
Hi Stefan, I've seen bits and pieces of this as you've posted them to Brickshelf, but it's great the see Johnny in all his glory. I can't wait to see this completed. I hope that eventually you're able to post movies of him in action. Bruce (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha)
 
  Re: Wire routing
 
Since you aren't using a train base plate, I assume you are using a 2x4 electric plate attached to the motor contacts and then attaching the 2x2 wire concetor to the under side of the 2x4 electric plate ? SteveB (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  surrender, you're surrounded!
 
Hello David! There can be no color debate thread without you, right? ;) (...) OF COURSE it is to ME. Who do you think did type this? My CAT?? (...) In fact I'm afraid there is not much thinking at all involved with those posts. Different interests (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego) ! 
 
  Wire routing
 
It has been a really long time since I've posted in .trains seeking help! (maybe never, I forget) :) So, anyway, here's the sitch. I have a diesel loco I am building. As many of you know, I usually don't use baseplates (and since this one needs (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Wenn die 1000steine weiterhin so ein freundlicher Platz bleiben, ...
 
Hallo! Zwei Jahre! Mei Gudness! (...) ___...___ Das ist unbedingt zu unterstreichen. Tschüß Jojo (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.de.ni.han, lugnet.loc.de.nw.dor)
 
  Re: valuing lego for insurance purposes
 
(...) Hmmm, I was hoping for a way to do this that didnt involve going through and building every set in my collection and then valuing each set plus all the parts that are left. Assume they dont want lists of individual parts, is there another (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)

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