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(...) Thanks! I have no idea where I got the clear slopes. Old BASIC sets maybe? My collection covers about 15 years (back to the duplo blocks which make up part of the base :), so that's my best guess. (...) Possibly, although a windsheild is much (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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WOW! This is a really great building! Nice combination of LDRAW and real photos. And HOW did you get a hold of all those clear slopes for the waterfall? I wonder if the odd windshield could be interspersed with the water to give it a blue tinge? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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I finally put together a web page presentation of my model of Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. Thanks again to Jacob for the fractal landscape generator. (10,000+ parts for the land takes *forever* to render in POV) The DAT file is available on (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish)
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(...) are (...) I don't know about the box, but I noticed that both nacelles are misaligned in the catalog (although the port nacelle isn't nearly as bad as the starboard one). Heck, I go to great lengths to make sure mine are aligned as closely as (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Olympus DL500, one of the early 1024x768 cameras. It's an incredible battery hog, but has a really good optical zoom, macro, and fill flash capability. The trick is to get down to the level of the model, and then ZOOM in on it. This reduces (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Did you notice on the cover of the TIE Fighter/Y-wing, the Y-wing's starboard nacelle dome is out of alignment? I'm not usually bugged by such things, but on a product package, where everything should be perfect, it bothered me. Steve (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Nice truck. And the photos are excellent. I am very impressed by the photography. What did you use to take the pictures? They are very clear and well lit.(1) And the out of focus background is great. -- Terry K -- 1. almost _too_ clear. So (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: new (to me) use for worms
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G. Benedikt Rochow wrote in message ... (...) I had never noticed this either, until I saw a web site by Michael Powell, who shows how to use the direction of rotation of a single motor to select between driving two different axels: (URL) I have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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Have a peek at (URL) for a look at my new Baja Truck. There are 3 60K images. Sorry about the big pictures, I couldn't get them to look decent compressed. As always, comments and suggestions are welcome... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) These were all custom jobs; the person who put the boxes together is Zbigniew Libera, a Polish artist expressing his views on the recent trivialization of the Holocaust. The first time I saw it, I cried. You can find some descriptive text (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) would (...) note that i do not aggree with the subject matter of the sets etc. i think that the grey hise thing would maske a great minifig dentists drill... also the fence posts would look good around a top secret military base and the guard (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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in this picture... (URL) wehat parts would have been used for the guard minifig... also what is he carrying in this picture (URL) what parts are connected to the grey hose.. and in this one (URL) what parts make up the fence posts... (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: new (to me) use for worms
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(...) Despite the ascii graphic, I think I get the idea. :-) I will have play around with this IRL - maybe try a clarified picture in LDraw. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I've been up close and personal to a drive shaft. I had an old Chevy van which liked to get into 2nd & reverse at the same time (fortuanately always while stopped - because the vehicle will not go ANYWHERE in this condition, if it happened at (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Yes. (...) I did not know that. I've accepted over time that a number of things in car suspensions must work simply by having room to wiggle a bit, but that this particulalr problem is avoided *that* simply explains a lot. (Wait till you see (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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Just as an aside, this post made me do a double take before reading it... I was going "what?? Lego doesn't make worms, just snakes and scorpions" (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If I'm understanding the workings, what is being suggested is to use the worm as a slip coupling (which just happens to have a worm screw). If you look at a cars drive shaft, you will see that it is in two parts so that it can change length. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Another axle, that's the whole trick. \\\...\\\ =====[variable gap]======== \\\...\\\ (...) View from above: o ......... -o----D------ U | | U F - and D are the rear axle incl. stiffening technic beams and the differential and attching crwon (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Interesting idea. But in thinking about it (without actually prototyping), I have a problem. You propose to use the worm on the drive axle, right? And the idea is that the worm can slide a little bit to and fro to adjust for the axles movement (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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I recently noticed that the fact that worm gears slide freely on an axle, which I've just regarded as slightly odd, can actually be of some use; to my knowledge, it's the only part that does so while being rotationally locked to the axle. What I (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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