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I am looking for a list of the partds that come in each of the aquanauts and aquasharks sets, commonly called an inventory. I need this because I am going to make a mega-model in ldraw. What I plan to do is get a list of the parts in every aquqnauts (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ice Cream
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(...) I like the CorelDraw idea. I think the best way to please both sides is to have a removable color bar and a drop-down list. If the color bar were to follow the true style of the Corel bar (which takes up very little room), you would be able to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: General Box #4 thread (NOT the NMRA/Minneapolis box)
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I would like to receive this box as well!! Thanks Dave . (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: General Box #5
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I would like to receive this box as well!! Thanks Dave (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: General Box #3 ("minneapolis box")
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I would like to receive this box as well!! Thanks Dave (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Good Trader List proposed
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Hey Y'all: I know that off and on some people get burned on a deal and want to announce the bad trader's name to the world. I know that I have been burned pretty badly at least three times in the last six months and the gods know I wanted to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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(...) have (...) shortages. (...) When I was in high school I worked at a Crown gas station. For those of you who never heard of Crown, back in the early 80's it was the last hold out for full service gas pumping. We would regularly do $8k to $15k (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LegOS 2.2 on solaris
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G'day, (...) Do you know if/how they were able to fix the problem? Btw. I used binutils 2.9.1 and gcc 2.95.2 (with the patches for the interrupts applied) to create the legOS and gcc 2.8.1 to build the cross compiler. Carsten (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Pirate ship with sawn hulls
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This is my first ship i built with hulls i cut in two with my bandsaw. Please let me know if you like it thanks matt www.geocities.com/ha...matt1.html (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: A change in attitude: was Big Brother is Watching (and reading, too!)
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(...) I don't know about Niven, but I'm quoting from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". Mr. Weasley is giving advice to his daughter Ginny. Steve (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream
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(...) Just 'cause I can't keep my mouth shut, I'd rather see a drop-down color selection tool than an always-there color tool. Video real estate is limited as it is. Ditto for the zoom buttons. They'd go perfect in a drop-down list or dialog. But (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part Authoring
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(...) LDAO's Editor automatically adds the poll option when it launches LDLite. (...) Weird. Are you using version 1.6 of LDLite? I thought Paul had plugged all the memory leaks. Steve (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: IR scanner
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In reply to: (...) believe (...) A couple of quick points here: Your value of 96,720,000 ft/s, while accurate and sounds extreme should be considered in it's proper context. For the light to travel 1 foot, the object must be 6 inches away (6in there (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Household uses for LEGO
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I built some shelves and a working phone out of Lego. I bought a regular phone, gutted it, and re-built it out of Lego. It works just fine. It isn't all that comfortable against the ear though, I have some re-designing to do. Silas Ed Jones wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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Gary Thanks for the info. Is it possible to connect and operate more than one GP2D12 to the handyboard at the same time? I wanted to work with four or more at the same time. Thanks, Terry -----Original Message----- From: Gary Livick (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Enough trans-antifreeze!
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Aaron West wrote in message ... <snip> (...) <snip> I had to respond (at least briefly) to that very powerful statement. It is true at face value. I don't think it could (or should) be otherwise. But it is not always a good thing for the long-time (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: 99 advent calender on lego.com
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(...) It's up now - at least the first game is. If you have a naff machine like me, then don't have lots of other windows up or else it will probably thrash at the wrong moment! Although it does make it more of a challenge! Go the Greens! Richard (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How to stay permanently logged in at www.lego.com
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes: Thanks for the tip. Too bad I only use that site about 5 visits per year :( KL (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Enough trans-antifreeze!
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(...) The nerve of sayin gthings like that, that's what gets people hurt. Shame on you. Mr. "Star Wars is the greatest set of movies EVER, and the best theme that Lego has ever had!" Smiley (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Curious thick white gear with the slipping hub
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(...) It is designed to protect the motors from stalling. It should act like a normal gear at low torque, and the inner portion should spin at high torques. The maximum torque is listed on the gear. alex (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Enough trans-antifreeze!
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(...) Eight years? That CAN'T be right! I'd say 6 years at the most. Episode 2 is supposed to come out May 26, 2002 (tooo far away!) and EP3 some time in 2005... 5 years away! (...) |w| \ |s| / Mr. "Please don't make me hate SW" SMiley (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: How to stay permanently logged in at www.lego.com
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(...) Notepad did that, but wordpad seemed okay. (I miss vi, I should really get around to installing ppp for linux..) (...) Also make sure you tell the difference between 'O's and '0's! It works fine for me now, cheers! Richard PS. The backing up (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Canonical use for Lego Trains at the holiday is around the tree
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(...) A supply of Gravol on hand for unsuspecting guests? ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | I've done it, I've done it!
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(...) alternate (...) I did it!! I made a Wraith!! It looks cool!! As every SC lover knows, from the front it looks somewhat like this: /\ /\ / \ / \ / \_/ \ / |_| \ | | | | well.... kinda. (...) . \ . / Mr. Poor ASCII Art Smiley (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: 600 dpi scans of 2000 Catalog Insets
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(...) It can. If you already have one of those canopies (same one as in the Naboo fighter) you'll recall it has stud-holes on the front. Stick it on top of a tilt-bearing hinge (that's what I've heard them called anyway), and voila. Hmm... got any (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Canonical use for Lego Trains at the holiday is around the tree
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(...) Actually neither is LEGO but, I do have a train under my tree and another in my tree. I have an N-Scale trian in the middle of my tree (its a fake tree). The trains, of course, run in opposite directions. But what makes it really fun is that I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: 600 dpi scans of 2000 Catalog Insets
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(...) Hmm... If the A-wing cockpit can really hinge open like that i'll buy like a thousand of them!!!! x) Dead Mr. Smiley (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Bad Trader Alert Part 2!
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I just called the phone number and he is still at that address! I left a message which the person said he would relay when he returns this Friday. This means someone (most likely him) lied to the post office about his whereabouts. Can he be punished (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Got my Battle Droid!!
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(...) me too. (...) I dunno, but that's what my dad calls it. (...) Mr. -) one-eyed smiley (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Curious thick white gear with the slipping hub
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Anyone know what this odd part is good for? One came with my RIS 1.5 system. The hub slips both ways, so it isn't a one-way clutch, and it seems to slip at low torques, so it apparently isn't a mechanical fuse. Thanks! Dave Paule (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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(...) I'm posting this late at night, so I'll try to be very careful about how I frame the reply. Taking advice from an American not to wheel in the lawyers I find a bit rich. But then I see our system heading full-on into the same mistakes that the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Bad Trader Alert!
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Hey all, It grieves me to have to do this but I'm also glad in a way. It's the end (of sorts) of a six-month long ordeal. In the beginning of July I arranged a trade with this person: Andrew Gaul 5150 Terr. Jasmin St. Hubert Quebec J3Y 7B4 Canada (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Offline AFOLs
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jason Briscoe (<038c01bf3b83$7de3d...7893e@pbnc omputer>) wrote at 21:52:07 (...) Good! (...) You lucky soul. We weren't allowed access at my last employer, for security reasons. (...) Funnily enough, I only got one so I could (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Legos: A Moneymaking E-Business? (Fortune Magazine)
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(...) Wow, that's amazing -- and very impressive! Here's the full text of the online article, BTW: (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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(...) I want some 6765 Gold City Junctions (aka Silver City) for $25 each. Unfortunately, I have to order about 100 of them from thetoyshop.com to get that price. Ugh. I've got enough backlog of stuff to part out already, and then there's the impact (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Canadian Tire
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Picked up 2845, 2848, 2872, 2885 at Canadian Tire for $1.49 + tax. (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Any ideas on how to do this with Technic?
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(...) Not entirely true. Your thinking of the "what falls faster, a tonne of lead or a tonne of feathers" question (or - "what's heavier, a tonne of lead or a tonne of feathers") which is actually more complicated than it seems. The thing with a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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Let me reiterate... 40 GBP is a good price for a big set like the shuttle. And if you order 20 at at time, the shipping is less than a 15% or so bump in the price. (I had an order for that number ready to go, then chickened out, don't want to hold (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Legos: A Moneymaking E-Business? (Fortune Magazine)
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Too bad Fortune magazine couldn't get the plural of Lego right. ;) -- 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 derick Bulkley (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Any ideas on how to do this with Technic?
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A counterweight doesn't change the speed at which something falls, does it? It may reduce the apparent weight of the main structure, but objects of different weights fall equally fast. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Aquanauts/Aquasharks visor question
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(...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.aquazone)
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| | Re: Automatic Transmission
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(...) I haven't built a transmission this way, but I have built a number of sliding worm gear mechanisms. I've found that you have to leave enough room between the drive gears so that the worm gear is only in contact with one at a time. (This is (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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Terry, I posted this awhile back. Somebody asked the other day about a problem interfacing the Sharp GP2D12. I didn't see an answer, and I just did it myself and solved the problem, so here is how to do it. For those who don't know, Sharp just came (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: IR scanner
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Why don't you just get a Pentium III at 900MHz to run a sensor?! If it is not fast enough, then you could still have one brick that could beat the snot out of most of the computers that are running them!!! (+ extra RAM, not firmware - real programs (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | How to stay permanently logged in at www.lego.com
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[crosspoted to lugnet.general & lugnet.publish; followups to lugnet.publish] If you're sick of having to log in at www.lego.com each time you visit the site, here's how to fix that... The www.lego.com site stores a browser cookie with your "LEGO Web (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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(...) Speaking of TRU online, Rachael and I received our orders today from the fire sale they were having last week. Here 2 Snowspeeders arrived just fine, but oddly enough, I only received 8 of the 9 Lightsaber Duels, even though the invoice says (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shuttle
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"Marco Beri" <marcob@equalis.it> wrote in message news:38442a13.416587...net.com... (...) 31 sterline / 3 shuttle = 10.333333 sterline ognuno. Ordinandone 100 avresti speso solo mille lire di spedizione ognuno.... ;-) -- Cheers Carlo. LUGNET member (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: WTB: Guarded Inn maiden and blue chalice
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(...) After I win the one on eBay right now I'll consider it. I already have a complete one and want the set more for the walls than anything else. (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Color & Classic Space
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Felix Greco wrote in message ... (...) [snip] The first few years of classic space in the late 70s, all you could get were red and white astronauts. I assumed that this was meant to signify USA/USSR joint space exploration. I thought it was kind of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: One ping only...
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(...) Dear Joel I'm glad to see that at least 1 Coloradian (sp?) uses Lugnet - I had hoped for some replies to my post 2 months ago about coming over in February but nary a thing . The thing that surprises me is that some of the e-bay LEGO sellers (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.co)
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| | RE: Looking for pieces to trade at the meeting (November and Dece mber )
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Mike, You are right on with your comments. I usually think of a brick as a 2Xanything as they are proportioned like a cement brick and a beam as a 1Xanything as in roofing beam but I'll try to use the standard terminology. If I had a few hours I'd (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: lego controlled Blimp
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Mark Sullivan <lego-ln@markbs.com> wrote in message news:FM1216.9Kt@lugnet.com... (...) $90. (...) boyancy as (...) attached (...) Yeah, I was thinking about getting 1 or 2 extra blimbs tieing them together to achieve more lift. (...) the (...) (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Automatic Transmission
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From: "Robert Eddings" <webmake@bellsouth.net> (...) If you search both lugnet and rec.toys.lego (via (URL) you should find many discussions of this. As far as I can tell no one has come up with a satisfactory design which is purely mechanical and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sharp GP2D12 (analog version) troubles
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Hello Alex, I ordered two GP2DO2's from www.acroname.com a while back that worked great and am currently ordering two GP2DO12's. Sorry that I cannot help solve your problem now but please post the solution for the mail list when someone responds. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | One ping only...
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This is just a quick test to see if any other Colorado types are still around on Lugnet. Now here's a LEGO-related reference, so as to stay on-topic. I've watched all of the Lugnet traffic about the various LEGO clubs starting around the US, and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.co)
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| | Re: LEGO "CAD"
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(...) (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Automatic Transmission
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Robert, Some time ago I built something using the gearbox-thingies from the 8880 super car. My vehicle only had two speeds though. But two speeds is quite enough for an electric motor, which operates well over a much wider range of rpm's than an (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Hit Counter Lego-Type
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(...) I'm not positive, but there -might- be some at cHRIS sPENCER'S website... (URL) to lugnet.publish] (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: WTB: Guarded Inn maiden and blue chalice
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Hey, and I need the flag/banner/sign thing. Doesn't anybody have an extra one of these to break up for parts? :-) Doug (...) (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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(...) Tell Dairy Queen. (...) Customers skipping out on tabs is a different issue than employees miscounting change. I think the legal issues are different. In the first case, it's the customer that causes the shortage, in the second it's the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Legos: A Moneymaking E-Business? (Fortune Magazine)
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FYI: From Fortune Magazine: Legos: A Moneymaking E-Business? Power Sellers Melanie Warner About a year ago, Heidi Le Vell shelled out $1,000 to buy 24 cardboard boxes filled with nothing but Legos. Over the next couple of months, she assembled those (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brick variations (was Re: Part variation noted)
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ABS bricks from the early seventies also have the tear-offs on the ends. KL (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Offline AFOLs
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All, The Lego Adventures mag, has a letters page, but its aimed at a much lower age range, just look at your TRU copy its all games and puzzles nothing much is really lego related. By all accounts it is not a good seller according to the newsagents (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Offline AFOLs
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Tony, I am in full support of this and have already being doing so! I only found lugnet by accident after my employer bought in new PC's and we finally got the internet in July, just by pure flook I tried searching just using LEGO and found over (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Severl Parts lots on Ebay from #7150
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Are Macaroon Bars a Scotland only thing? (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: MY FOTW (!)
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So would this set have been available in the UK, or would the buyer have had to import it especially? Scott A (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Unified UK Lego community idea
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(...) for specifying a database name as it allows for any number of named databases, just as "n=<num>" allows for any number of numbered news articles, "p=<name>" allows for any number of named pages, and "m=<id>" allows for any number of member (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Brick variations (was Re: Part variation noted)
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As my journey from the Dark Ages continues, I have noticed some variations in the basic brick... o Old CA bricks have the plastic 'tear off' (aka the umbilical) on one of the short ends of the brick. Newer bricks (ABS) have the 'tear off' on one of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: WalMart vs WalMart
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The trick is finding the other WalMart that has the item clearanced in the first place. This is especially difficult on the west coast: none of the stores here seem to go into the real heavy discounts. Now, other states....! Bruce :-( (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | WTB: Guarded Inn maiden and blue chalice
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I'm looking to replace these two lost pieces to complete my set...email me if you can help. -- 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 (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | LEGO mindstorms, billigt...
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Hej. Jag tänkte köpa LEGO Mindstorms och undrar därför vart man kan få tag på det billigast. Finns det någon trevlig webbutik som har det? Jag har föreslagit det på www.letsbuyit.se, men dom är ju så sega att man inte orkar vänta! //Simon (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: How much are tudor walls worth?
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I agree that some can find a deal here of there. I find that Ebay I seem to do worse on price because when I want something someone else wants it just as bad if not more. Maybe a lot of reasons you get good deals is that people like me dont want to (...) (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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(...) That's a illegal activity here in Canada. The store owner has to eat it, not the till person!. Esp. a problem with restaraunts, where people run out on the bill, recently a store was charged and fined quite heavily for billing the waiter for (...) (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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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... <snip> (...) I do agree. A 50% discont on an item that is already marked down 50% is unreasonable. And doing it on over 100 sets would probaly close the place down. I am not all that upset about it. You win some (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: MY FOTW (!)
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Cancer Research Campaign. Tollcross. Between the Kings Theatre and the Tolcross traffic lights. Scott A Nicholas Allan <nick@clunyterr.u-net.com> wrote in message news:FM11FJ.8BJ@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Looking for pieces to trade at the meeting (November and Dece mber )
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Not to nit pick too much, but I feel we would be helped if we standardized the terms a bit. I think that there are some elements that are referred to differently than "industry standard" that I have commented on. If I can get to the Decemer meeting, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Any ideas on how to do this with Technic?
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(...) Counter-weight through a pulley or gear system? A lessening counter-weight (classic sand displacement)? Bruce (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Part variation noted
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I've seen 2 stud long technic rods that have the little "easier to pull" notches in them and some without. I also noticed that some of my 1x1 plates with the horizontal clip in them- on some the clip is thinner than on others. Chris (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lite tjat... (off topic)
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(...) I Skara finns det en sevärd skylt med texten "tapetserar verkstaden", sjysst... (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | WalMart vs WalMart
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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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