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| (...) You picked the right forum. The thing in the lower right is a very old 4.5V LEGO train motor. Since it's upside-down and disassembled it's harder to see it for what it is. It was first made around 1970. The things on the right are obviously (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: Help: Query re: 4.5V stuff
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| (...) The thing in the lower right is a very old 4.5V LEGO train motor. Since it's upside-down and disassembled it's harder to see it for what it is. It was first made around 1970. The things on the right are obviously the wires to connect it to a (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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jordan, bradford
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| (...) I once built one of these, just to see how it worked. It's pretty ingenious. I kept adding worm gears to see how big I could make it. Once you add more than two, there's a big gap in between the gears and the end of the housing you build for (...) (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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jordan, bradford
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: Space layouts with TrackDesigner.
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| It sounds like you went through a lot of work. That's commendable. But unfortunately I must call your attention to a new program being developed that uses XML to describe track parts and other things. This makes it a lot more flexible than Track (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: source of <-O-> background
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| Michel, I just sent you an email with a link to the finished logos. If anyone else wants a 2.67 MB zip file of the train logo in various sizes and colors, let me know and I'll put the link in here. (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: Anybody bought the 8438 Crane Truck yet?
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| (...) Besides replacing the old style half bushings [LDrawPart 4265a:7] 4265a Technic Bush 1/2 Type I with the new ones [LDrawPart 4265c:7] 4265c Technic Bush 1/2 Type III the only major change is the way you manually turn the pulley wheels. In the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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jordan, bradford
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jordan, bradford
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| (...) Futuron is better, because Futuron has a monorail. Muahahahaha! Actually, I'm a big fan of MTron. Since there's no love for them so far in this thread, I'll be the first to point out their greatness. (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: Nico Bestanpouri's roller coaster
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| (...) NOOO...OOO!!!...!!! Actually, that's awesome! I'm yelling because I had the same idea a while ago for making rollercoaster track out of the ribbed tubing, but I could never figure out a way to construct a wheel mounting that would work. I (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: Looking for Technic suggestions ...
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| (...) For what you're doing I'd use a worm gear, because it will take up the least amount of space. The ride will turn kind of slowly, but that's what you want, right? Try a test with the worm gear attached directly to a motor and then to your (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: The Brick Testament: The Full Extent of The Law
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| (...) Although this final installment of The Law was pretty brief, with only two or three images per section, it was still very good. I especially liked your rendition of God punishing the man who decided to follow his own moral compass. The picture (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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jordan, bradford
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| I'm giving a presentation about Mindstorms on Wednesday. I have a slide near the end that talks about all the stuff I know people want to see added. Here's what I have so far: RCX === RC communication (but keep the IR port, too) more I/O ports (...) (21 years ago, 3-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) I believe that is exactly what legOS does. It compiles your program and stores it in the firmware area. legOS has no firmware, and it ignores the ROM code, too. It accesses all the hardware directly. That's my understanding, at least. (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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jordan, bradford
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| | White Tower -- Under Construction
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| When the new castle wall standard (URL) was announced> way back in August, I wanted to build a cool tower to use in a corner section. I also wanted to see if I could build stuff along diagonals, which isn't very easy. This use of tall sloped pieces (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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jordan, bradford
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| | Re: What part is this?
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| (...) I have a few of these, too. They were made in the 1960s, and look like this: [LDrawPart 650:15] 650 Hinge Coupling-Nylon I've colored it completely white there, but it's really more of a translucent white. The LDraw color code is 62 or 63 (...) (21 years ago, 14-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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