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(...) Is there any worry about exhausting the lubricant (or is there no lubricant)? I suppose WD-40 would rejuvenate it if it did get exhausted. (...) If the surroundings of the water well are large enough, one could hide the plastic wrap behind a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: meeting (was Re: train club)
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(...) year (...) The (...) to (...) baby (...) I might be able to come up with tables. I can meet tomorrow, at my place if you like, but then not again until two weeks from today. Jimmy (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc)
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| | Re: anyone know of any good castle sites?
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(...) Sorry for the HTML, just cut this out of a local page of mine (I need to get this up on the web so that my answer to these questions can be: see (URL)CASTLE</H1> <UL> <LI><A HREF="(URL)Dan Jezek's Lego© Home</A> <LI><A HREF="(URL)Dan Jezek's (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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I got to the shop just before its 1:00pm opening yesterday. An 8' tall Bat Lord was wandering around in the mall, while a number of shop assistants were enticing the young (and not so young) with LEGO bricks imprinted with "August 1999" - not (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Non-pivoting free wheels (was Re: odometry (was Re: Homing with the IR Tower)
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(...) <snip> Whoa! =:-o That's what a call a DESIGN! I'm almost burning a fuse trying to image one of those running, err... turning... whatever it does! OK, what are good sources of baloon tires? (sets) :-) Laurentino Martins [ (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Part ID.. Help!
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I just found a part in a lot of Lego, and I cannot find a reference to it anywhere. It is a "gearbox" that is black, and is the size of two 2x4 bricks stacked. In one end (the 2-lug end), is a cross axle which turns a black spur gear (8 tooth). On (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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In article <FFwnvD.61o@lugnet.com>, Huw Millington <hmillington@cix.co.uk> writes (...) That's half the fun gone, then. Surely Town Junior just make the sets so much easier to build, without having to find the bits and stick them together in the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lego is like nanomachines
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(...) design. (...) Whoops! I just dropped my nano-brick separator and split an atom! (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: meeting (was Re: train club)
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(...) I could certainly supply trains and track, and some structures. I currently don't have the resources to build modular tables, but that could possibly change by the show date (I plan on buying a house in the next few months). A meeting would be (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc)
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| | LEGO S@H Canada Summer Catalog
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I'm not sure where to post this, so I figure build gets the widest audience...Also, I'm NOT proposing selling any of these items, so don't flanme me about how this should go to .buyandsell... Here in Canada, we get what appears to be a Canadian (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Technic Supercar 8448
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(...) They cunningly used the old upper/lower arms and 1/2 stud shorter tie rods to create the same old toe change with suspension travel, but for two reasons (smaller knuckle, and then vertical small springs) this change is limited by the very (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | RE: Don't use Lithium-Ion batteries
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Please note that in this particular case, the RCX is reported to still work with the internal batteries. That means the fault is somewhere in the path from the external connector to the main power "bus" within the RCX. Some component that is only (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LDlite 1.6 problems
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(...) Huh? That's probably a problem with your LDAO-to-LDLite setup. I never have any problems this way (and I constantly launch LDLite from LDAO -- I use LDAO's editors). (...) These two might be a problem if you are using the current beta of LDAO. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New groups list
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Just dragged this one up from the depths of (pre-)history: (...) That would be really cool. A poster-size enlargement of a red 2x4. Ooo. Steve (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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(...) I have built the chassis, in about 2-3 hours. The separately boxed sub-assemblies have slashed construction time dramatically - no more sifting though 100's of pieces for the one you are after. It has - rear-wheel drive only - front steering (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Don't use Lithium-Ion batteries
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From: Issac Merkle <the_gaff@hotmail.com> (...) Note that both NiMH and Li-Ion can put out much higher currents then alkaline cells (alkaline cells have a high internal resistance). Could this person have shorted across the output somehow? That (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My new Engine: SD70M
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(...) Nice model. Big too (I visited Portland last week, and met Kim and Steve Barile for lunch and got to see this engine in person). One thing, we need a reasonable way to get weight bricks, that engine just felt WAY too light for such a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | LDlite 1.6 problems
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I have been having tons of problems with Ldlite 1.6 I know it's been out for quite a while, but I don't use it much so I never bothered to say anything. I'll list the problems below. I haven't had any problems with previous versions of Ldlite. Can't (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some window questions
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Just got done reading Gary's history of windows, thanks. It looks like 1x4x2 windows only exist in red and white, sigh, no black, no grey, no yellow, no joy. Chris (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Necessary components in Mindstorms software?
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Since I haven´t got Mindstorms yet, I am as unexperienced as one can be, so you must bear over with me. If I buy the Robolab kit, which does not contain the normal Mindstorms software, only the Robolab software, will I then be missing (...) (25 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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