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| (...) Wait till I pneumaticise them ;-) Seriously, I would make #1031 essential reading for all Technic and robot builders. The mechanisms shown therein are fundamental and will crop up time and again in various models. Enjoy! -- C S Soh (URL) where (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
| | | | | Mill & Fly Ball Governor
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| David Macaulay's book "Mill" can inspire you to build a LEGO Technic MOC model or a classroom project that incorporates both architectural and mechanical features. An old LEGO educational Dacta model can make this project interesting. For a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
| | | | | Re: Brick Layers II book
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| Thank you for the correction. The set with parts has the ID #1030 but the building cards alone have the ID #1031. Weird. My mistake for not confirming the correct URL at Kevin Loch's Brickshelf. More importantly, now we all know that C S Soh dabbles (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
| | | | | Re: Brick Layers II book
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| (...) It should be 1031, here (URL) C S Soh (URL) where air is power (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
| | | | | Re: Brick Layers II book
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| (...) I can't find 1030 (or 9030, in case it was a typ0) at Briskshelf or Pause. Where did you find these scans, Miles? Kevin (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
| | | | | Brick Layers II book
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| You can learn basic LEGO Technic engineering and building from books. What do you know about the new book, ie, "Brick Layers II ..."? Pitsco's 2000 catalog has a new book titled "Brick Layers II: Creative Engineering with Lego Constructions" (Pitsco (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.build, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.books)
| | | | | Re: New MINDSTORMS book
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| I bought 'LEGO MindStorms Super Creatures', too. The robots in this book have beautiful mechanism. In Japan, two robots, 'Walker' and 'Beetle' appeared on television. (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.books)
| | | | | Re: Container grabber
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| (...) Bite your tongue. But glue it to the roof of your mouth first so that it really hurts. Infidel. (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| Glue? Chris Just couldn't resist. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Container grabber
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| (...) But not very well. They have a tendency to pop out again. At least that's been my experience. Anyone have any clues as to how to get them to stay? (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Container grabber
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| On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 04:02:08 GMT, Allan J Smith uttered the following profundities... (...) For those with the tractor wheel links, the inside "tubes" of 1x4 plates fit into the holes on the links.... (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | New MINDSTORMS book
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| I found new book of MINDSTORMS, and I bought it. The book name is, Joe Nagata's LEGO MindStorms Super Creatures (Ohmsha,Ltd. Japan ISBN4-274-08683-6) There are many robots, and how to make these robots. I can not read Japanese, but many picture help (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.books)
| | | | | Re: Container grabber
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| (...) I just built the grabber. I extended it by 6x1 & added a 4x1 plate to the bottom inside. The only problem is that last year (99) I started to build trailer 6x?? so now I'll have to build 4x?? trailers for small trucks & 6x?? for large trucks. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Container grabber
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| (...) Hey thats a good Idea. Due to lack of room its hard to have a switch track to a ramp. So I'll have to try that comcept. Just have to build a stout crain to support the weight. Thanks J.W.Hummer www.geocities.com/spincity999 (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Container grabber
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| While experimenting with the red container grabber as used in 4555 I noticed that the holes for the black rubber are the same size as a stud. I have now modified one so that it has grab arms that can lift and load my grey piggyback trailers onto the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Machnines handling garbage - video
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| Machines handle garbage. The world processes so much garbage that we have thousands of mechanical inventions to handle it. These machines can give us LEGO building ideas. Perhaps, clever LEGO builders can improve these machines. An excellent video (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.books, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Ultimate LEGO Book - Frustration
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| OK, this has been posted before, but I'll post it again: the Ultimate LEGO Book can be frustrating. I've got a copy of this book (actually, Kristin got it from my co-worker's wife, who's a DK consultant, so is Krissy, but she doesn't have cool (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.books)
| | | | | Amazing Animals & Fabulous Figures
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| About a week ago my backorderd books arrived: *Build Amazing Animals* and *Build Fabulous Figures* by DK Publishing, Inc. (C) 1999. List price $4.95 (US) each These are the newest LEGO books from DK, and the first two in the LEGO Modelers line which (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.books, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | Re: I'm writing a Mindstorms book.
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| (...) The book has been printed (I've got a copy in my hands right now), but I don't know how long it takes to get into circulation from the bookstores. I believe Fatbrain (www.fatbrain.com) currently has some in stock. I would expect Amazon to get (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.books)
| | | | | Re: DK books
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| If you check amazon.co.uk and use 'Lego' as your search word, both of these books appear twice - I think for UK and US editions - under slightly different names, e.g. 'Amazing Figures (Lego Modelers)' for the US editions and 'Lego Modellers : (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.books)
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