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(...) Ditto, although I have taken to bidding my maximum and then never looking again. I have so many other things in my life that I can worry about and spend time on - why waste time on a system that rewards losers with no life? (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Seedling starter trays work great for sorting and they are cheap too. I picked some up at a garage sale that are 4 compartments long x 7 compartments wide that are almost sturdy enough for a permanent storage solution except they are too wobbly to (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I would suggest that set 1996 is not a Pirates set. I believe that the correct number is 1696. Grahame Reid (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hi Everyone: I am trying out the infra red emission and detection with the Handy Board. I have succeeded in the emission part but the detection circuit is not working. I know that the emitter LED is fine , with the help of Radio Shack Infrared (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) destroyed (...) get (...) I still have a couple of these sorted in with the old metal axel wheels (my kids opt for the newer wheels on nearly all of their creations) Now that you mention it, I distinctly remember trying to make a train with (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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I'm looking to buy or trade for just about any kind of roof brick with special attention to the following: PURPLE 45 degree slopes: 2x2 and inverse 2x2 in Extreme Creatures expansion pack for Mindstorms (2 of each). GREEN 45 degree slopes: 1x2s in (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Drew I picked up a 20x4 LCD from B. G. Micro (see their on-line catalog at (URL) and view page 2 - the LCD is the one in the upper right at $8.95, part number LCD1002). For 2x16, it will work just plugging into the HB. I poked memory locations (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Yup. I had 4 of these at one point as you got one with each box of wheels/axle bricks you bought. I only have one now. I distinctly remember one was destroyed by my chewing on it when I was about 8. Sigh. I also remember trying very hard to (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Hello Lugneters (Lugneteers?) I am looking for the last five sets to complete my Pirate collection. If anyone has one of these sets in a sealed box and is willing to sell, please e-mail me. I have had the pleasure of dealing with many RTLers over (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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You can find them on my site. Go to the bottom of the LEGO(tm) page and you will find two links. One sources from voyager/jeffK and the other sources from Xoom. Content should be identical. Problems to me via email please, I am about to submerge in (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.announce)
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(...) This was used as a trailer hitch conection during the Samsonite era. You connect one end to the "car" and one end to the "trailer" element. I think it was also used on the early legoland train models that rolled on the blue track with red 2X2 (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Nancy & Eric's Train Auction Update 4558 Metroliner - $350 DBulkley 4564 Freight Rail Runner - $250 SNealons 4551 "Crocodile" Locomotive - $225 SNealons 4536 Blue Hopper Car - $60 GLouie 4546 Road 'N' Rail Vehicle - $20 DBulkley Pair of monorail (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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The subject says it all. Since my Retrostation Auction is almost over, the 4565 Freight and Crane Railway (1 of them) is the next one in line to be auctioned. I have decided to do it by parts (ie - locomotive, scale, crane 1, etc...), but I think (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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as formerly mentioned, i recently got set #375 (1960s Samsonite brick set) at a yard sale for $1. not too special -- it's just a "universal" style set -- but it has a lot of clear bricks and old-style windows and doors and wheels and whatnot, which (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) don't forget that the women got to wear skirts made of ~60-degree sloping bricks! also, i loved the reversible hair pieces. sideburns? :) (...) i don't remember jointed-arm kids -- my only jointed-arm-figure set i can recall was homemaker (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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Aaahhhhh, shutup and deal with it. <duck> Seriously, you and I BOTH know if you truly want something on EBay, you WILL have to rearrange your life around the end time. I have had to wake up at 3am to make sure I got something I wanted. Sucks, but I (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Hi, I've got some photos of my first 'bot, but I'm not convinced they look good enough or are useful enough to integrate into my website. Can someone out there stop by and look at the five sub-20k jpgs under: (URL) let me know what you think? Also, (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
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OK, I just got a Mindstorms this yesterday and I've been surfing the various web pages about it (Lots of good info!) and I came across something odd. The specs for the microprocessor say it has 8 bit A/D's (Analog to digital converters), but the raw (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) want (...) Rob, no offense but I really don't want to hear about how eBay works. I know how it works. I know they can run their auctions any way they want, and I know that if I want to win at all costs, I have to be willing to rearrange my (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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