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(...) I gavethis guy in my Lego club a whole tub of old bricks to go through, and I told him they were Lego, but they were really clones that I had stamped "Lego" onto using a special tool I created that stamps the Lego logo one stud at a time. Boy (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't understand this statement. (...) In this compressor/engine schematic I drew yesterday, vaccume is the exhaust for pressure, and pressure is the exhaust for vaccume inside the engine. The part of the compressor that creates vaccume (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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Ciao Mario, (...) Io non l'ho nemmeno finito e non so se riuscito' a finirlo. Tuttavia il programma in C++ e' bellissimo anche se, essendo indipendente dall'hw, ha molte procedure vuote per fare le varie azioni :-) (...) Figurati allora noi! Nel mio (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) To be honest, I never actually intended it to be used in an engine. And to be more truthful, I just buitl my first pneumatic engine a couple of days ago, so my knowledge on the subject is a bit, archaic. I wanted to create a closed circuit (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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I think most certainly a combined fluidics would be in order first. Im surprised there was not already a .pneumatics, as it would seem like an obvious group. Not that I have contributed, but I do follow the pneumatics thread with great interest. I (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Nice work. With the exhaust sealed off, I figure the piston will move up and down gradually and gracefully rather than the quick movement that we're used too, because of the cushioning effect. This would be fine for an application like a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Bryan Wong spotted this story earlier and posted about it (URL) here,> but thanks for the heads-up as well. This is good news on all counts, IMO. Since it amounts to an across-the-board dismissal of LEGO's "trademark" claim (in Canada, at (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) No - exhaust! (...) You need to eventually discharge the compressed air (or vacuum) in a pneumatic system. Interestingly enough, this is the first time I heard of a pneumatic system using compressed air and vacuum at the same time. Usually (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Here we go. I finally got some pictures of my progress. (URL) The tank represents the load on the circuit. (URL) And this is with the ram for the load. I am very pleased to find that it works. (URL) Its interesting to me too. Rather odd that (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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Canadian courts have ruled that Mega Bloks can continue to sell its products in Canada. From (URL) article, "Lego sought an injunction and damages from Mega Bloks. Lego believed it had a trademark on the look of the knobs on its blocks. After losing (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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