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(...) 20? I only have 2! But it is a great set to get, if it is on sale, (all the ones at the store were $30.00 can) and the pieces are great especially the 1x6x9 roof pieces (note this is my first time doing something x something x something, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 9/25 gathering announcement
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(...) For those planning on attending: Any chance we could reschedule the gathering for the next day, Sunday the 26th, at 1:00pm? Reason: I've been promising my wife for almost a year that I would take her to a special plant sale the Wildflower (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
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They do hurt things. When viewing dat's in ldlite via the web interface parts with exponents do not render. They do render when you load them from a local file however. I think MLcad is generating them. KL (...) -3.33067e-015 1.10441e-029 32014.DAT (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unique Gear Part - what is it 2.5 /5.0 in Motor Kit
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(...) It starts slipping somewhere between 2.5 newton-cm and 5.0 newton-cm. "newton-cm" is the SI unit of torque and corresponds to a force of 1 newton at a radius of 1 cm, or a force of 0.1 newton at a radius of 10 cm, etc. [1] The reason for the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I think that person very carefully popped the plastic ivets using an exacto knife, I cannot remember the URL, sorry. I am too chicken (scared) to try it myself. Christopher (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Earth Scraper
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I like it! How about a back-hoe? -John Van Duane Hess <DNJHESS@ZDNETMAIL.COM> wrote in message news:FI29JH.691@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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Do any of the command-line DAT tools do cleanups on floating-point numbers? I've noticed lot of lines lately with very-near-zero floating-point numbers, like these lines, for example... (...) ...which certainly don't hurt anything, but they could (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"As much F1 technology as we can bring to the street" that was Enzo's philosophy for the F50... and here you have it... this one has nice details... from the yellow prancer logo just behind the front wheels, to the carbon fibre shift handle... i'm (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | DAT line parsing (was: Re: Datsville: crane2 (exponents?))
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(...) My bad. 'Twas a bug in the code in the ldraw.cgi script on the server which recognized DAT content. It wasn't expecting 'e' exponents in numbers. The old regex (just the non-type-0 portion): /^ \s* [1-5] (?: \s+ [0-9]+ ) (?: \s+ \-? [0-9]* \.? (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: How do I contribute to Datsville?
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Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message news:FI25rz.7A@lugnet.com... (...) In general, Datsville vehicles should have a "home," rather than just be decorations for the streets. If you submit a house, for example, you can submit a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: Unique Gear Part - what is it 2.5 /5.0 in Motor Kit
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It's a clutch gear. You can use it instead of a pair of pulleys with a rubber band if you want to avoid stalling your motor if something jams. Compared to the pulleys, it gives you a very well defined stall torque - it's actually printed on the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I Can't Spell
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(...) Well, it's on it's way. This is basically a progress report. (...) I've got Teemto Pagalies', Ody Mandrell's, and Dud Bolt's pods all built, with Clegg Holdfast's racer in the works (...) So far I have queen Amidala (who looks suitably (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Call for Box Status
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(...) I've been sitting on Chris Weeks' box for about a week now. We know what we're going to take out and put in, we're just inundated at work right now. I received the Junk Box #1 yesterday. I'll get both out tomorrow, I promise. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Update on the PNLTC display at the Western Washington Fair
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Congrats, Dan et al! Just reading about the event gets me excited to show again (hopefully in Oct). Glad to hear everything is working out and I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say that we can't wait for photos and tales:-) -John (J2) GMLTC (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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With all of the construction going on in Datville, I figured that someone should start making more construction machinery to help speed things along (you can only do so much with a shovel). It's a little unstable around the pivot point, but it (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Dark Ages story
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(...) I've had two distinct Dark Age periods; the first lasted from 1988 to 1992, which coincided with high school and my thoroughly time (and money)-consuming interest in the opposite sex. Although I did not buy any new sets during this period, I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 6444
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(...) Wow! That's more than I have (depending on the definition of "close"... I have close to 20 copies too if we define close to mean "off by 12") I had no idea you were that obsessive! It IS a good set for parts. (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Update on the PNLTC display at the Western Washington Fair
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Posted as an aid for Dan Parker (He's spending nearly full time at the show!) Kim (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 6444
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(...) On sale at $9.99 at KB it was very popular with me (even at $12.99). I've got close to 20 copies. Lots of nice parts. (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Ideas book 260 at Busy Bee
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I've just been to Busy Bee, and they've got a pile of ideas book 260 for GBP 1.99. (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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