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One of my LUGmates swears by a product called Oxy-clean. He soaks really stinky elements overnight in a solution of one litre water to one tablespoon Oxy-clean. (15 years ago, 3-Feb-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Shop @ Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, February 3, 2010, to Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Item #7996 City Trail Rail Crossing R/C Retail Price: $24.99 Sale Price: $9.98 Item # 5612 LEGO® Police Officer Retail Price: $3.49 Sale Price: $2.98 Item # 6193 LEGO® Castle Building Retail Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $7.98 Item # 6194 LEGO® My LEGO® (...) (15 years ago, 3-Feb-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Strong smoke smell on parts
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Hi Lee, Wash the smoke damaged bricks in warm soapy water with a small amount of bleach. Let the bricks soak for a few hours. Rinse and let the bricks air dry on a towel. The bleach smell will fade after a few days and your bricks will no longer (...) (15 years ago, 3-Feb-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Technicopedia Update
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(...) Fantastic work as always! (15 years ago, 3-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Some help or advice requested
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(...) Yes, there are quite a few possible variations on this mechanism. There is even at least one in an official model: (URL) Hope you get it working. I always like a purely mechnical solution :) (15 years ago, 3-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Strong smoke smell on parts
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I recently got an order from Bricklink, from a store in Germany, and when it arrived it smelled very strongly of smoke. I've been trying to find solutions to cleaning them that will be satisfactory. Some sites say sealing items in a container with a (...) (15 years ago, 2-Feb-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: January 30th, 2010 SMART Meeting
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Thanks to everyone that showed up on Saturday, we had a great 10th anniversary meeting! There were a number of good rope climbing robots! As well as some other interesting robots that people brought. For our next meeting, on February 27th, the (...) (15 years ago, 2-Feb-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Some help or advice requested
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(...) Hmm, I had dabbled with a similar solution, but inverted (with the motor driving the bottom gear and the two side gears the two outputs, but discarded it for reasons that escape me at the moment. I must investigate this further. Thanks! Owen. (15 years ago, 2-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Crushed box specials at Legoland California
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Legoland CA has a small selection of "crushed box" discounts at 15% off at the Big Shop - about 10 or so varied sets. I didn't inquire if the 10% member discount also applies. Incidentally, the New Year's brick is presently "lost at sea", so not (...) (15 years ago, 1-Feb-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | TEXLUG Austin meeting March 6, 2010
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(URL) A TEXLUG Austin Meeting (Texas Lego Users Group) Where: Anna's Toy Depot 2620 S Lamar Blvd # B Austin, TX 78704-5170 (512) 447-8697 When: Saturday March 6, 2010 3:30-5:00pm Bring a MOC! There will be a contest with prizes! (15 years ago, 1-Feb-10, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego City Policeman and LdrDat2Dxf utility
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(...) Interesting, I somehow missed the announcement of this tool. Did you try Rolf's Lugnet email address? (see (URL) the homepage is still available through Google cache: (URL) (15 years ago, 1-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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--snip-- (...) Yeah that would be me speculating on things I haven't read properly... Please ignore. Tim (15 years ago, 1-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some help or advice requested
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Here is yet another possible solution that I have found effective for something very similar (a vehicle that reverses its direction when it hits an obstacle). This one is purely mechanical (no electrical switch needed). (2 URLs) The mechanism relies (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi everyone, I've started putting a website together with Lego models in various formats. My latest addition is a Lego Policeman. See following link for details: (URL) tried to provide a number of different model format downloads including 3ds, obj, (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What's going on with 59443.dat?
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(...) Yes, Philo is right. We try to release modifications/improvements to related official parts in the same parts update. That is one reason why some Certfied files get left on the Parts Tracker at each update. Chris (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Dungeon Delver: That Frog...
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(...) (full story of its birth: (URL) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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(...) If you can get Peeron/LDraw and Bricklink to agree on all color names, even if they don't match the official names, you win a freaking prize. (...) Yeah...it's hard enough for most people to keep track of a lot of the more common colors as it (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Makes sense. That did look like it was a fairly new color, though the first instance I can recall of that color was the natives from the Indiana Jones graveyard set (the one with the new motorcycle fairing) (...) The what now? Which sets would (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés samedi 30 janvier 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jour. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Improviser son décor en exposition ** par Jac le 30 (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Dungeon Delver: That Frog...
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Well, I've been working with MLCad and LDView for a few weeks now. Back to it from years back... Spent some time today to buld this little scene. Used MLCad to build it, LDView to catch the snapshot, and Paint Shop Pro to resize and add a little (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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(...) That's why I went no farther than with the pinks/purples. (...) (snippage) I see 2 possible solutions to this whole mess: 1. Poll/talk with everyone until names we can all agree on are found. 2. Drop names altogether and refer to colors (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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(...) Don't burn out your brain trying to figure out how they came up with the official color names. All that is required is to understand that there's some _serious_ disparity between their names and ours. For instance: They call it Brick Yellow. (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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(...) I wonder why that color is called Bright Purple? On Bricklink and elsewhere, it's called Dark Pink. It don't look purple at all. What's the diff between pink and purple? Pink = Red + White. Purple = Red + Blue. The pinks and purples seems to (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Brick Dice
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(...) Green, but no black? It's _almost_ the classic color assortment. (...) There's always the 1x1 brick with studs on four sides! I'm sure there are plenty of other options out there as well, but each one will probably get progressively farther (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Interfacing Znap to System
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Znap was designed by Lego to be fully integrateable with system elements. The znap stud circumference is tangent to a brick stud circumference at the 4 cardinal points, meaning you can mount a system brick on a znap connector stud. The height of a (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Brick Dice
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(...) Oops. Looks like I should read (URL) the other replies> before I reply myself. David (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Dice (price)
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Yes, the dice are for sale. One set (of five dice) is $12. Each additional set lowers the per-set price by $.25... to a minimum of $6 per set if 25+ sets are requested. Shipping (in US) is + $5. I can take Paypal. Email me at my address above if (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brick Dice
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Will you be selling these? David (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What's going on with 59443.dat?
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(...) Yes, they are and remain official. The new version of angle connectors will hopefully become official at the same time as (unofficial) part 59443, keeping coherency in the library. But indeed as you need to use unofficial 59443 the way to go (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Eastwood Ravine
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(...) Nice Benn (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Dice
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(...) Cool. Though you know, there are 1x5 technic beams, or you could have shown the tubes on the underside of a 2x6 brick/plate (grin). You say they, "come in a set of 5", does that mean they are for sale? Benn (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What's going on with 59443.dat?
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(...) Does this mean that the other angle connectors are no longer official parts and I need unofficial copies? (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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(...) Pretty sure that medium nougat is the middle-eastern skintone from Indiana Jones sets. Bright purple is probably the purple they've settled on to minimise the colour issues (in quite a few sets this year). Tim (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Developing a "button pressing" RCX system
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Hello, I have inherited a hand-me-down RIS kit with a functional RCX unit that I would like to learn to use and put to a purpose. I would like to build a system whereas the RCX is setup to press buttons on controllers (think remote control units) to (...) (15 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Brick Dice
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Hi all, I'm betting there's a fairly large overlap between LEGO-geeks and game-playing-geeks. For that audience I present these "brick dice". Instead of digits 1-6 on the faces, I have building block representations with one to six "studs" showing. (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jan-10, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: What's going on with 59443.dat?
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Hi Eric, (...) I have recently updated angle connectors to add the engraved identification number. Doing so I also improved the shape to more closely match real parts. After that I updated 59443 to match the new angle connectors shape. You should (...) (15 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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(...) Phosphorous Green is Glow-in-the-Dark. It's already noted in the Peeron color chart (far right column for 50 Phosphorous White), but there are at least two distinct GitD colors (noted as opaque and translucent in Bricklink), and I couldn't (...) (15 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | What's going on with 59443.dat?
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What's going on with 59443.dat? This is the Technic inline axle joiner, the one which has NO circumferential ridges to fit with the drive ring but instead is smooth to match with the other angle connectors. There used to be two different versions of (...) (15 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO's Internal colour palette
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Comparing this list to the LDConfig on my machine, there are three new colors: 221 Bright Purple 294 Phosphorous Green 312 Medium Nougat Unless anyone else volunteers, I'll take some time next week to match them to the BrickLink colors. Scott (15 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: January 30th, 2010 SMART Meeting
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(...) Just a quick reminder about tomorrow's meeting stating at 2pm at DigiPen! If you have a mini-challenge robot (rope climbing) don't forget to bring it. Even if it doesn't work perfectly, I'd still encourage you to bring it: we can learn from (...) (15 years ago, 29-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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