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Yeah, well, 50% off is no great deal FOR YOU. Me, I live in an area that stuff almost NEVER goes on sale past 20%, because it sells out before it can hit any lower IF they had any in stock to begin with. I got my first deep discount sets in AGES (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)
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(...) From what I understand by reading this thread, it looks like it's too late in NZ. I think we should try to find out if this is going to happen in *other* locales and try to prevent it there. (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: r/c servos
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(...) Let's say a 0.7 ms pulse results in a rotation of 0 degrees. Let's say a 2.0 ms pulse results in a rotation of 180 degrees. If all you had were 0.7 ms pulses and 2.0 ms pulses, you'd be able to choose either 0 degrees or 180 degrees, resulting (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Another Carney masterpiece
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Has Carney been invited over to lugnet? Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <37BAD526.FADBED5A@v...er.net>... (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND trains
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(...) ^^^^^^^^Freudian slip commentary on Town Jr?;-) BTW, Nice spot by the NLS! There is hope for you, Stevo! ;John (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: r/c servos and firmware
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(...) Almost exactly how I'd do it. The problem is what if OCIB must be set to a small value, and the FRT has already passed this value when the OCIA handler sets up OCIB in step 3? This problem is solvable. If the total interval is closer to 1 ms, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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We are in the process of adding Lego to our product line for both instore and internet mail order. Our intent is offer 10% off regular retail pricing. We will both buy and sell Lego products, offering cash or credit for purchases. Our display will (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | CLSotW banners (was: Re: [ldraw.org] Update)
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(...) Yup, got it -- it's in my inbox. I usually update the CLSotW banners page on Sunday at the same time as updating the CLSotW itself, but since you wrote "I'll have a 40x400 banner for my main site soon," and yours was the only submission that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Using RCX with Lego Trains
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I just picked up the Lego "Railway Express" set (#4561) last night. It comes with a "Toy Transformer" electrical plug (adaptor). The label on the plug says (North American version): Input: 120 VAC 60 Hz 0.12 A Output: 12 VAC 7 VA Would this work as (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego in the Midlands
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You're probably not missing anything yet :-) There are a couple of people in the Warwickshire area, but I don't think anyone's got organised in the UK yet. We're getting there, though. The Scottish & Southern Legofests show that the level of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | backgrounds logo image (was: Re: [ldraw.org] Update)
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(...) Oh! I see what you mean now. You placed a copy of the flb-logo-small.gif image at the bottom of your page. Hrrm. Re-reading the Terms of Use on the (URL) I guess that point #1 is ambiguous... 1. These images are original artwork and are (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: POV-RAY orange color
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Strange. I rendered a brick colored 462 in POV and it came out silver. When I sandwiched the brick between a white (15) and a black (0) one, it came out orange. Maybe 462 does not always work... Scott R Dennett wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND trains
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(...) At least year's 25th anniversary truck tour display, my wife spotted a Megablok 2x4 stuck on the large birthday cake model. I notified an employee- droid, who said, "... oh." and removed it after a bit. Well, I thought it was funny anyway. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | RE: r/c servos and firmware
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(...) There are multiturn servos for winches in RC sailboats, but they are REALLY expensive. (...) Well don't give up too fast. They ARE useful for steering, or lifting, or grabbing because we can set the limits of motion. This makes things like (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Loose or Clumps?
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(...) I keep all my pieces in tubs according to size and color (1x1 gray/white/black/green , 1x1 red/yellow/blue, and so on) and all loose. Dunno if either way is better, but I like shoving my hand into a huge pile of loose bricks - slowly of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?)
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Scott Edward Sanburn <ssanburn@aeieng.com> wrote in message news:37BD9833.B2990C...eng.com... (...) of the (...) American (...) the US, (...) tariffs (...) world. (...) electronics to (...) NAFTA does only apply to the US, Canada and Mexico (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | R2D2 head (was Re: Sebulba)
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(...) I believe this is a result of the fact that the equipment at LEGO that applies patterns to pieces can only "paint" the pattern from one side (one "direction"). Since the R2D2 head is a "hemisphere", the pattern had to be applied from the top, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: r/c servos and firmware
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(...) Okay! Finally I got it! (-: It sounds to me like servos can't rotate continuously in the same direction. In other words, they're good for steering but not for turning the wheels that make the car go. Is that right? Anyway, having heard that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: r/c servos and firmware
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(...) OhOh, I've piqued my own interest. I've looked at the H8 hardware manual and the RCX internals. The OC1A triggers every msec, except the stupid routine clears the Free Running Timer every time!!!! So much for using the OC1B, maybe. The minimal (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO requirements - Using LEGo trademark in Webpages
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(...) See the 2nd line of my sig below? dtrh.com is the domain name. jaba. could be a machine name (it isn't, but it could be). I've had several lego-related names for machines at work. minifig, baseplate, bricks, castle, you name it. All those (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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