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I've been lurking on the train forum for the past few months and was pleasantly surprised to see it become active again. I have been debating posting this as I haven't been able to build in over 3 years now but since the goal is to fund my Lego (...) (13 years ago, 5-Mar-12, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Yellowness
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(...) Yep. I don't really understand all the chemistry going on there, but essentially LEGO has a flame retardant in their ABS plastic which contains Bromine-- a naturally yellow/brown color. So, when exposed to UV light (direct or indirect), this (...) (13 years ago, 5-Mar-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Yellowness
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Hi I once built a large building in white, though not finished. It stands on a cupboard, at the other end of the window, hence not in the sun However, due to ... reasons I have not completed this for some 4+ years, but just lately I realised, that (...) (13 years ago, 5-Mar-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LPub not generating torus in output images
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(...) Hi Dave, That is a really old version of LPub. I can imagine that you are using it for a reason, like you want to render with POV, but if that is not the case, I suggest you update LPub to version 4.0.0.11. It renders using LDView or LDGLite (...) (13 years ago, 5-Mar-12, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LPub not generating torus in output images
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I'm using LPub v 2.4.8.0, and I've noticed that it completely omits POV-Ray torus objects in the output images. Any idea why this might be happening? (13 years ago, 4-Mar-12, to lugnet.cad)
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| | ItLUG Ballabio 2012 - New website on-line
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ItLUG Ballabio 2012 new website is on-line here: (URL) the following link the logo event MOC: (URL) event will be next 6/7/8th July in Ballabio (LC), northern Italy. Actually there already 42 AFOLs registered. Stay tuned! (13 years ago, 3-Mar-12, to lugnet.events)
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| | Gary Istok will be selling his entire collection...
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OK, I'm still PDFing LEGO CD files, and making a few changes since I have a last minute chance.... BUT.... Right now I'm just putting feelers out there... I've decided to sell my entire LEGO collection.... hundreds of thousands of parts from 10-50 (...) (13 years ago, 3-Mar-12, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | LEGO® Group Sales Up by 17% in 2011
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March 1, 2012 Author: Roar Rude Trangbæk LEGO® Group sales up by 17% in 2011 For the 8th year running the LEGO Group captured market shares in 2011 in a sluggish toy market. The Group’s share of the global market is now 7.1%. Sales rose to USD (...) (13 years ago, 2-Mar-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: *** MLCad V3.40 ***
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(...) Thanks Willy. First it would work at all, even i replaced the old LDConfig file. But then i remarked that i was still on MLCAD Version 3.2,while the latest one is 3.4 After installing the 3.4 version, everything O.K. And now adding a shortcut (...) (13 years ago, 2-Mar-12, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 2 mars 2012
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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 7 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Le quartier des affaires FreeLUG ** par Denis HUOT (...) (13 years ago, 2-Mar-12, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: hmmmph!!!!
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(...) Just so I understand you Dave, Your sad you have to build, and play with your lego bricks? Confused Chris (13 years ago, 2-Mar-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto) !
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| | March 31st, 2012 SMART Meeting
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We had a great meeting last Saturday, with lots of really good line-tracking robots. The people there voted to do the line tracking competitively, so here are the results: For a straight line: 1st: Kyle (34.9 seconds) 2nd: Rose (36.5 seconds) 3rd: (...) (13 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: 3D printers
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(...) I'm assuming that you are lightly protesting the (URL) SOLD OUT> status, Dave!? (In service to those unaware of the inside joke) JOHN (13 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: The newer magnets... // "Photos or it didn't happen."
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(...) Thanks for showing off the "guts". I had a chance to try out the new magnets last weekend at the alleged train show in Portland with my Maersk train pulling about 5 cars on the layout. In real life, on a 45 degree "S" curve after a wide 90 (...) (13 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Theed Hangar Encounter
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An unexpected encounter with the Sith Lord forces the rebels to alter their plans, an alternate route to the palace for the entourage while the two Jedi deal with the menace. The third in a series of Lego Star Wars Modular Buildings. (URL) Click the (...) (13 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | hmmmph!!!!
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So the year after they release the wonderful brick-built calendar (that I just got for Christmas) just happens to be a fraggin' leap year! So yes, you have to rebuild the entire calendar for March!! Grrr!!! Dave K (13 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: need help identifying set
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(...) thanks for the reference with pictures, dave. i think my brain mixed the 6582 and 1687 sets together 'cause i'm remembering it differently but those have got to be the only sets that match what i'm remembering. ..jg (13 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Kartoffelrækkerne
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While I can't comment on the accuracy of the model (I've never been to Europe), I've got to say that is quite an excellent LEGO town. (13 years ago, 29-Feb-12, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: The newer magnets... // "Photos or it didn't happen."
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(...) Getting back on a very old topic ("since we all know that a picture is worth a thousand of words" - "Photos or it didn't happen."): (2 URLs) Hope you enjoy (despite of destroying LEGO parts) + Leg Godt! (URL) See more pictures of my models at (...) (13 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Mathematical proof that you can't build anything with LEGO bricks
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(...) I think it's the higher ratio of piece types to set size that leads him to conclude the sets are not as useful for free-form building as they once were. The argument he makes is that if you have a set of 100 unique pieces, it has less (...) (13 years ago, 1-Mar-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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