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(...) Sorry about that. (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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Everyone that even has a casual interest in Adventurers should go here now: (URL) sets are awesome! Check out the variety of vehicles and parts. I must pour over them some more, so I'll post more later. Cheers, Mark L (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Great! Can you give me the URL? Mark L (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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Huw's great web site now has pictures of all the 200 sets, including the Dino Island sets. What can I say? They are much better than the Amazon sets. There is even a frighter ship! The pontoon plane is great, and even the base look wonderful! I (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) I don't know what the big 'L' calls it, but I think it's a Slipper Clutch. They're used all over the place in r/c race cars, to protect the drivetrain, both the motor and the gears/belts, from the abuse of a heavy throttle finger and/or rough (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) I don't think clutch is the correct term. The white 24t gear cog is normally used to protect the motor from stress. If you use the white gear in a gear train, it will slip if the load becomes too high, which is better than having the motor (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Actually...I think that is supposed to be a clutch. It also comes in the new 9V motor set 8735. Pat (26 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) That's where the friction in the pulley comes into play. Your system will need to accelerate initially to attain some sort of velocity. The friction will eventually (and pretty quickly if you fine-tune it right) counter act the acceleration, (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) want. (...) No daftness at all - a good guess. I didn't know it wasn't in version 1.0. It's in the 1.5 version. I haven't found a use for it yet, although it is on p. 59 of the 1.5 Constructopedia and on their parts page inside the back cover. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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That's a good solution as well. It might be harder to make the descent *really* slow, though, as is possible with a clock-style pendulum. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars www.filmforce.net | Your Daily (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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I'm thinking of having the gears on the moveable structure itself connect to the pendulum...I'm not sure yet how much friction there will be, I may need to use a lot of lego on the structure to make it heavier. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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Hi (...) One of us is going daft and I suspect me. Which strange, thick white gear in the RIS??? Or is this in the 1.5 version?? Mike (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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If you want to vary the rate at which an object of constant weight moves, why not use a mechanism like an old postal scale. No, not the kind that shoots you when you look at it sideways... It involves a pendulum mounted so that when the object is at (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) I may very well be wrong, but I don't think this will give the desired effect. The friction inside the gear is quite high when there is no motion, which may be a problem when the mechanism is triggered. And what's more, I don't think it will (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) It wasn't me, 'twas Steve Bliss. (...) This sounds like a very interesting project indeed! You should report back if you succeed with this. You need to connect the weight of the base to the pendulum. How are you going to do that? You can have (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) That strange, thick, white gear in the RIS slips with drag that appears proportional to the rotation rate, so it's a dampener, which is what you want. Dave Paule (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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I see. I understand what you're saying. The main thing I'm looking for in this case, though, is a constant downward speed which does not accelerate. Your ideas are interesting though, I will probably incorporate them into future projects (a working (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Counter-weight through a pulley or gear system? A lessening counter-weight (classic sand displacement)? Bruce (26 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.adventurers)
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