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| Over the past few years I have had a chance to play w/several types of ABS/plastics and various heating elements(1) to make race car body parts(2). Lego ABS melts at about 220 degres easily. A 15watt soldering iron can cut right thru them (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: [CW] Mutual stories question and offer
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| (...) Well... the problem with that being that I don't think the rules are very clearly defined to begin with-- hence the need for discussion :) (...) I certainly don't see it as very limiting-- also, I imagine that when someone comes in, they've (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| I'll say it again - good quality rubberized heatshrink tubing should work fine, and will lock down quite tightly if you find the right size. And if you use a lighter/heatgun carefully (or like me when I shrink the stuff, use a butane soldering iron (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Thoughts on using yellow for a castle...
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| (...) Yes, that red line was inspired. It's the kind of touch that lends a martial aspect, by invoking the sacrifice of those who have defended the city in times gone by. And I loved the sloped bottom as well--your wall looks formidable and (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Set 4811 - small poly bag set
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| (...) I'm personally using a lot of them as mounted soldiers - that plate armor looks great - but with different helmets. They also function pretty well as pikemen - I use some of my extra lance/flagpoles as pikes, and it works pretty well. (...) As (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) <johncleese> Ah theenk jou need tha Franch. </johncleese> Actually, the reason for choosing _Gloire_ is that it's the first ironclad. It can't really use the fleur de lis, however, given that whole nasty 1789-1815 thing. I hadn't thought (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: [CW][OT-FUN] Casting Castle World
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| (...) Robin Williams, definiteley... although he doesn't look too goo with a beard... (...) LOL! Agree to both ;-) (...) Hmm, you'd have a prob with Leo and Matt in the same movie... they look too much alike. I don't know all my cast, but here goes: (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Sounds kind of profligate to me. (...) Trains are a subtheme of Town according to some. And, if you vote right, you might just see a resurgence of feudalism and a return of wooden ships and iron men, so whos to say that Castle and Pirate (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Studs, and next LegOz thingie
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| (...) See what I can do, will perhaps get one screen printed (or print it out here on my epson photo 1200 (don't worry this will give a photographic rendering, especially if I create it in photoshop or Illustrator) then I could try that new Iron on (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| | Re: New Pics: the Mad Mage Cornelius
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| Geez ... I love it! That reminds me of : 1) The iron giant ... 2) Something that the Smurfs would make that would go out of control. Ha ha ... that is so pure and fascinating! A mad inventor ... This opens up the window for so many awesome projects (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) You're in luck. According to my sources, that type of helm was in use for several centuries. Let me check my notes... Yes, here it is. The type of helmet seems to be a 'chapel de fer' - literally, an 'iron hat', with an attached mail coif to (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: PC -RCX comunication
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| (...) OK. I agree with you about open-source OS. I like linux, but I prefer using visual programing in the PC side (Visual C++ o Visual Basic). (...) What about the QC examples? I've seen a easy interface IROn, IROff, IRReady, IRSend IRReceive .... (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Blair Witch Project - Thoughts?
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| Adam, (...) Hmm... I know I do that from time to time as well, such as why did I just spend 300.00 on LEGO? :) I can tell it would affect some people though. (...) Well, I know I am usually on one side or the other (Usually on the right ;) ), and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: More Scans! (Was: Scans of my Minifigs)
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| (...) Yup, eventually. I've got to iron out some of the details first, such as who is allied with who and such. They also need names. :) Unfortunately, I don't know when I'll have time to build any buildings for them. :( Hopefully next weekend... (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: A village challenge and questions ...
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| (...) True. Fero/ferre is also a verb, whereas "ferrum" is a noun. As an indicator, the periodic table's entry for iron is still (and will always be) Fe. (...) There's also a few others interesting Latin metallurgical terms running around our world (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Miscellaneous thoughts...
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| I have looked at these new knights and bulls for a while on scans: The bulls, cows, whatever will be the Longhorns and make up one half of a conferderacy of barbarians with the Wolfpack ( another small subset )combining the two series will make them (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6094 Guarded Treasury
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| The land of Bernatia is on the brink of destruction and King Leopold doesn't even know it. Impending doom at the hands of Tauros the mad has slowly worked its way into the kingdom. Already his henchmen have quietly captured outlying settlements and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Medieval occupations (was Re: spelling questions ...)
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| (...) There you go - the connection I wasn't making. The difference between producing the thing made of iron and actually putting it to use - shoeing the horse, and all the doo-dads you'd need for the horse, sounds like. Never thought of it that (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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