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A while back there was a thread (possibly several) about how a particular set would be clearanced at one WalMart but not another. I may have stumbled into a solution... Go purchase the set where it is being sold at the attractive price. Then take (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Severl Parts lots on Ebay from #7150
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(...) Oh, nevermind. My Netscape was apparently getting clogged. I re-started Netscape and now I'm able to browse these. (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Outlet Mall Locations?
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(...) Actually, my guess would have been that these are two large outlet areas not currently served by a LEGO facility of some sort (Florida and the midwest have LICs, California has Legoland). The only major markets I see now missing anything would (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Magnetic couplers
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(...) pulled (...) Around 20 cars on flat ground, without puting one motor into the middle of the train. 9 passanger cars up a 2 plate slope, heavyweight cars. 2 motors at front, 1 near rear. If you intend on running up and down grades, you can (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: www.toyshop.com - Were we right or wrong?
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(...) What are the morality issues at stake? -- Liam. Standard Disclaimer - "I was having dinner with a friend." (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Part variation noted
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I've noticed two types of Technic axle extenders. If you look through the cross axle hole in the extenders, you'll see that in the center there is a plastic flange which keeps an axle from going all the way through the extender (it only allows an (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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Hi Recently Got a sharp Gp2D12 IR ranger , for those who dont know it continusly gives a analog value in proportion to the distance to a object. Problem: When I wired it up I got a constant 147-150 no matter were the object was. Unplugged sensor I (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Automatic Transmission
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I have been working on building an automatic transmission for quite some time but have yet to come up with satisfactory solutions. I am looking for additional ideas to try. What I consider to be an automatic transmission in this case is: [Drive (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How much are tudor walls worth?
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Most of mine are red. :) -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News Opens everywhere, January 2000 James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: How much are tudor walls worth?
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(...) And there is one which includes the walls at $63 right now (eBay #206111010). Maggie C. (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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(...) Definitely - didn't mean to imply that it isn't. I just think that it is unreasonable to expect them to come back with a 50% discount. If you think they should do that you're likely saying that because of a technical glitch they should (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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(...) You? Cynical? Not *our* Mike Stanley! James (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Hardest Piece to remove?
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If I'm not mistaken, I believe there are two parts you can put together that are _impossible_ to remove without destroying one of both of them. Don't try this at home :) Get one of the octagonal Aquazone 'duct' pieces that has an angle at one end. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Firmware w/o CD
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You simply need the firmware file, which can then be downloaded directly by nqc : nqc -firmaware <your firmware file> No need for the mindstorm installation then. Though you may need the spirit.ocx to use rcxcc... But that's another story. Phil (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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(...) I actually haven't found this to be true. In my experience good and honest behavior are rewarded (for the most part) by a nice spot at the end of the line. There are some rare exceptions, but most nice guys (in my experience) really do seem to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Part variation noted
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A few months ago my brother noticed that there are two types of walkie-talkies. One has 5 ridges on the back and one has 7. (the numbers might be wrong but they are different). One type is from the classic space era and the other is modern. KL (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: ordinery vs. action minifigs
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(...) Yeah, I tend to agree that Majisto's torso is rather good for making peasants-- although I still wish I had more other colors of the peasant torso... offhand, I can only think of grey, green and blue tunic torsos... I think the best would be (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Outlet Mall Locations?
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I can tender a guess about why Georgia (and Virginia)... Both of these locations are near major N-S interstate highways that just happen to feed to... DisneyWorld. Atlanta has a large population of its own, but my speculation would center around the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Any ideas on how to do this with Technic?
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I've received some very good responses here. Jacob Andersen's worm gear idea is what I would do if I were to use a motor, but since gravity already provides energy for the system, a good engineering solution would not use an additional motor. Plus, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: LegOS 2.2 on solaris
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(...) You're right, that's the echo of what you're sending. This looks suspiciously like the problems many people had with gcc-2.9.5 compiled legOS on regular Linux boxes, you know. Maybe you should try downloading a kernel known to work? Markus. (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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