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(...) Did brick it forward end with a mere 8417? Wow, Chris was bought off easily. "Because you keep using me like a stepping stone" Calum (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto20 Draft Rules Posted
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Hi folks, The product of many long debates, rtlToronto20: Project Y's draft rules are now posted: (URL) contest is slated for February of 2006 and is currently open for debate on the issues marked in red on the webpage. Start your debates. In (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: New MOC: Nemo II
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This mech is hawt. I love the shape of the chest, and the position of the shoulder mounts. Lessee, you've got green, black, yellow, gray, white and dark blue, and you make it all work. That hip armor, with the white plate stripes matching the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: A double crossover
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(...) Well since you asked. i guess you could say it's too easy because i allready have a working automated crossover. the doubble would take longer to do but it should be easy enough. (3 URLs) (...) keep dreaming =). there is no way i'm taking that (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | Re: A double crossover
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(...) technicly the throw is one stud closer but i don't think i'm going to move them to the outside unless i find an issue with it. besides the place in which i'm thinking of placing this switch i don't have space for the throws to be outside the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | Re: Shroomtastic
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(...) Nice work Chief. Bonktron lives! a (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: T3 Board colors
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(...) Someday I'll have to learn LDraw (or more likely LDD at this point). Very nice work John. It looks like it's one brick and one plate high? (...) I wish it was symmetric, but that can't work unless we make all the cells 6 wide. One point - we (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | FA: 4551 Crocodile parts and moretrain lots, going cheap!
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(URL) luck! Gianluca ___...___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: New Mecha: The Cub
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(...) Oh yes, and the lone light in the room, dimly lit, made it all the more fearsome. (...) Ever since I built this; (URL) Robot>. I tried to make the heads look cool from any angle you viewed it. Because, with the black robot, when you look at (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) Would you mind sharing what software or code you used to map the image to the sphere? I'm wondering how the globe would look with (URL) one of these images> mapped to the Lego palette. --Bram (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: A double crossover
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In lugnet.announce, Ondrew Hartigan wrote: (snip) I saw some sneak preview pics and was floored then. Wow. Now, for your next trick, let's see you get the points on this one to interlock (if one turnout is thrown to take the crossover, the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | Re: T3 Board colors
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(...) With this being said, I've re-done the T3 board in LDraw. You can see the latest version here (when it goes public) (URL) The basics: baseplate-- green, cubes-- white & black, surround-- black, crosshatch plates-- gray If anybody sees a (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: A double crossover
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(...) [snip] (...) Looks great Ondrew! I'd be interested to know though, the unmodified switch controls actaully look like they stick out a long way toward the other track, might there be more of a problem than usual with long wheelbase cars hitting (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | Re: OT - anyone own a robot vacum?
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"Chris Magno" <cmagno@rogers.com> wrote in message news:Iq29Mq.w96@lugnet.com... (...) The "Roomba" is a perfect example of how a company with no sense of product design can throw together crap that is inexpensive and woo everyone over in seconds (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | A double crossover
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Hey all, About 2 months ago now I was challenged/ asked to make a double crossover. While I thought this project would be difficult I had no idea how long it would take me. In total I have between 20-40 hours of time invested in the double (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Bricklink Admin Bill Swanberg arrested for Lego thefts
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I have not met or traded with Bill before. Still, this news shocked me, as if suddenly I discovered that one of my close friends were a criminal. It's sad, sad, sad. Stealing is wrong. Stealing for profit is very wrong. Still, he could have commit (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: My first mecha: Proto-1
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(...) I am always glad to see a new Mecha build member. Welcome! I would like to see some more MOCS to see what you are going for before I make any coments. Regardless, I do like the poseability and the color scheme. Regards, David Rabadan (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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It rolls quite well [grin]. I considered doing each continent a different color, but then thought that might be too distracting. eric (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | brickOS on Mac OS X
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Hello, I'm trying to get a recent brickOS (0.9.0) working on Mac OS X 10.4.3. I have an RCX 2.0 with the USB tower. I have a cross-compiler (gcc 3.2.2) that apparently works, and using the firmware download program included with lejOS (specially (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: New MOC: Nemo II
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Fierce! I can say no more than that. -Dave (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The history of LEGO in Norway
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(...) Oyvind: I have been doing some research on this topic for my lego history site. See: (URL) licensed it's toy molds and sold the technical knowledge to Svein Stromberg A/S in 1953. Several different toys were licensed, including the Ferguson (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My first mecha: Proto-1
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I just had to log in and post since NOT posting would have been a crime. :) Excellent first model, Mo! I see LOTS of mobility there, and quite a few modern and not so modern influences in the design. I'll agree that the colorscheme is a bit iffy, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Random Pneumatic idea/question
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(...) Having now made a hydraulic pump, I figured it was time to go to the next step and make a compressor. (URL) This is the first working model. Again, the tank represents the load. I decided to use the pump motor as the switch mechanism for my (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Google Earth and Legoland
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I'm not sure this is really "media watch", it's more like "multimedia watch", but I can't keep this to myself: Google Earth has chosen to include extra high resolution satellite photos of relatively small areas around each of the Legoland parks in (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LIEBHERR R954
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(...) it's not a deeplink though. while you are logged in click the picture again and again till the URL ends in .jpg, .gif or whatever, not a number. THAT'S a deeplink. See: (URL) for more info, it's a FAQ entry, sort of. Hope that helps. (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: Problem with IR
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(...) Your correct, it isn't that. I know all about -Susb, because I'm using a serial and a usb tower simultaneously with respective rcx's. One sets in a box so their is no IR crossover. I have swapped over the towers. The USB worked perfectly in (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Problem with IR
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(...) Since posting I found the old post reporting this problem and have since tried this fix. Alas it didn't work but I will try it again. Steve (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Bricklink Admin Bill Swanberg arrested for Lego thefts
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(...) Most cashiers working in huge toy stores simply don't care. Pick the one that looks most inexperienced, tired, or both, and you can probably get away with the most amazingly simple scams, provided you don't do it too often. That, I think, was (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LIEBHERR R954
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(URL) is the first photo of the gallery. Fabio www.abstechnology.org "Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:IqBqw1.Mo8@lugnet.com... (...) folder has (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: Legofest di Crema
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(...) Io porto il mio modulino, che sta tutto in una baseplate 32x32 e richiede una presa di corrente (non fatemi usare le pile per l'RCX...) Devo ancora finire la parte di scarico, ma è solo questione di tempo a disposizione, tutto il resto (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Wake up Mr.Sleepyhead Stormtrooper
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Recently purchased a HP Knight Bus... We all know about the 2 shades of purple problem, but the set I bought had a rather unusual part substitution mistake. Missing was one of the '2 x 2 slope with pillow printing'. Substituted was a SW Stormtrooper (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) I saw this and thought it was the greatest thing ever. I did my own virtual version with (URL). (URL) Plate Lowell Globe>> I followed Mr. Harshbarger's lead and based it on a 48 stud diameter Lowell Sphere. The land masses come from the (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LIEBHERR R954
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(...) You may get better response by posting deep links direct to some of the pictures. I have not been able to view this model yet because neither folder has been moderated while I was on-line. ROSCO (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: LIEBHERR R954
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i have changed tha folder, sorry. (URL) sali" <fabio.sali@tin.it> ha scritto nel messaggio news:Iq9pB9.24Is@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | The history of LEGO in Norway
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Probably will Gary Istok have this information (but anyone else that have any information is free to answer): From the Norwegian technical museum homepages ((URL) in Norwegian only) I can read that we in Norway was prevented by law to import plastic (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Striscione ITLUG
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ciao ragazzi, se ne è parlato con qualcuno a zwolle e dopo zwolle che sarebbe carino avere un striscione da appendere quando facciamo delle manifestazioni tipo dadi.com o i gioxhi sforzeschi. a tal proposito mi sono informato: per uno striscione in (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Problem with IR
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(...) This probably isn't it, but if you're using the command line, have you included the -Susb parameter to tell NQC you're using USB? (This will takes ages to post as my email isn't working, so sorry if you have 5 other replies before this one...) (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Ironic scale
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I stopped by my local goodwill and they had a used 3d puzzle of the Millennium Falcon. It was $1.99 so I picked it up and went home. Three to four days latter, I finished building it (quite impressive) and then it came to me that it is almost the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Guardate
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(URL) su "Invito convegno fronte" e appare una simpatica locandina A me piace :-) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: What's the worst Lego-related thing you've ever done?
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(...) ***snip*** here it is, for anyone joining the conversation late: (URL) What's the worst thing you've ever done in a (...) Unbelievably, the worst I've ever done was to steal a 1x2x3 door from a friend, about 25 years ago. (URL) not just that (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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