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You'll have a very hard time making a ball-and-socket design bear a load and turn without lots of friction. Putting wheels between the ball and the socket just brings us back to the problem that we were trying to avoid by not having wheels. A much (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Some window questions
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Hi, I'm still waking up from the dark ages and have a couple of window questions: Do 1x4x2 windows come in other sets besides london bus #760 and police heliport #560? Do they come in other colors besides red and white? I was surprised by the lack (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | FS/FT dacta activity cards
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I have found a small quantity of dacta Technic instruction packs, if you are intrerested, please make me an offer. 1033 contains 20 activity cards 1090 contains 5 building instructions and user guide. Peter D Simpson sterlingIT@interalpha.co.uk (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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I have been recently renewing tacky and missing stickers on some of my old loco's, using excact copies made by my brother on his sticky plastic cutting machine. They look as good as the originals with the exception that the white print and logo (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Can we say, "Plagiarism"?
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(...) Or that the Postal Service delivers it to the wrong address I would think. Ben Gatrelle (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 20 year old space auction - any last bids before close?
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This will be the last update; note that two items still have no bids against them. *** ALL ITEMS WILL BE SOLD TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, 1800 GMT *** 885 jet buggy 1979 $25 / G2 D.Lovelace 886 lunar rover 1979 $25 / G2 Sy 889 lunar rover 1979 $25 / G2 Sy (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Don't use Lithium Ion (was Re: RCX battery cover)
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Someone sent me an e-mail reply saying that they had used an external Lithium Ion battery pack to power their RCX, and that after a few days of use the RCX appeared to stop working, then they discovered that it only worked with internal batteries. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Space Original Creations
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(...) nice work Rick : ) thanks for the picts! John (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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(...) I would be interested in some details about how the suspension is setup(front and rear?, drive mech to the wheels, and are those parts similiar to the 8880 super car) Thanks in advance and enjoy building! John (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: web controllable robots & LNP
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(...) This gives me a bit of an idea... Presumably there is not much to stop me (or anyone else) coding some or all of the non-RCX parts of this LNP thing using Tcl - 2400 baud is hardly high speed! I had been wondering about how to keep most of the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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