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Very nice design! I love it when everything comes together so neatly. The hardest part for me when trying to do things like that is to get all the gears and tie-downs to align. I built your version (all in black -- I won't have the yellow beams (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Parts Storage -- a nice carrying/storage case
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(...) <snipped nice descrip> (...) Thanks Robert. You also might want to let lugnet.storage know about this. From Tom McDonald Anti-spam block in place. (URL) what you can, but behave yourself. We'll have more, right after this. (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Nothing so debilitating. Sorry to be so unclear again. I was actually referring to your web page text, "Proof that Larry is lazy". I made it into a disease cuz I didn't think you actually worked at it. :) I haven't been drinking, I just have a (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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I was gonna announce the same thing when I saw it. From what I can tell it is a new crown gear but I figured everyone would have known because of the cybermaster gears so I kept quiet. However it IS a new crown gear (I think) (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Great, now I have diseases(1) named after me. :-) It would be touching, but I have no idea which of my idiosyncracies Tom is picking on, so I didn't get the reference. :-) (...) 1 - Mental illnesses? (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) to (...) Oh, just shoot me and get it over with. I haven't coffee yet today, that must be it. www.shades-of-night..../stair.jpg (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) done? (...) mine. Um, make that www.shades-of-night.....stair.jpg (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Could people put up some pics or ldraw files of staircase designs they've done? I've come up with one I like, but it's fairly tile-intensive, and I'd like to see what other people have done Take a look at www.shades-of-night....stairs.jpg if you (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Interestingly put. I find that now I'm using Town Jr. stuff to almost take the place of Freestyle buckets. The pieces have a matching color scheme which is something that Freestyle buckets rarely did. Don't get me wrong though: the Jr. designs (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) (Following up on lugnet.build because it seems more suitable.) I don't mean to be ignorant or arrogant, but I see a lot of people who complains about the lack of "buildability" in the various LEGO System lines. I don't get it. I mean, if (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Technic 99
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(...) Oh, and one more comment on the image of the 8446: Notice the grey gear below the right hand side of the green 12-beam to the rear of the vehicle? The one just inside of the Slizer "ski"? This looks remotely like a differential, but not (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I think that that is a real understatement. The thing (IMHO) looks awful! ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Technic 99
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(...) Interesting. I would guess that the crane can be rotated (through the use of a large Technic turntable) and tilted. It looks like you need to flip the device holding the large suspender to close the grabber. This isn't too nice, IMO. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Parts Storage -- a nice carrying/storage case
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I just discovered a very nice storage case that does excellent duty for all my Lego Technics parts. It's the Popular Mechanics Lid-Storage Organizer (PM58261). It's about the size of a thick laptop computer, approx. 15" X 12" X 3.5", has an (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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I've got a different scan -- much more detail and easier to see. I put it on my web page (primitive, more a place to transfer stuff than a real web page). Check out (URL) must apologize in advance for the GeoCities junk that pops up). Just scroll (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I work for an airline, and could do the LHR-AKL section of the above itinerary on my firm's flights, for the knock-down price of $0.00! (An award ticket for not being sick. Or being masochistic, going into work when I should have stayed in (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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**I** could be mistaken too! They do seem to be cheap, die-cast metal, though. Lots of chrome-plated pieces show evidence of the plastic underneath, but I couldn't find evidence of that on these, and am really making an assumption.... Fredrik (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Hmmmm ... as Homer Simpson would say ... DOH :) -Lee. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto://jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc mailto://ljorgensen@...uswest.ten <-- reverse ten (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Greetings, I got a Mindstorms set for Christmas and think it's one of the best things since sliced bread. I got a preview at E3 in Atlanta ealier this year and have been dying to get my hands on it since =) Anyway, I've discovered that robots are (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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Also sprach Lee Jorgensen: : Amateurs .... go for an OC-24 (2.488Gigabit/sec) ... That would be an OC-48 ... the 24 is 1.244 Gbps ... / _ _ / _ _ "Sit down, you foolish mortal fish! ()(-(//((-/ -- overheard at Backstreet ===...=== Jim Baker -- (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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