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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <369C11DD.CA28C5D8@v...er.net>... (...) "2x2 - 1x4"? Hmmmm. Either we're talking about slightly different things or I'm not understanding the naming convention.[1] Each part of what I've got is one dot deep, two (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) When I was little, I almost always made things to that scale. I liked to build huge ships, and didn't have enough lego. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) How about this? /\ 1/\ \ \/ / /\ \/\/ /\ \ \ / / \/_ _\/ 2 | || | 3 |_||_| Each number is next to a hinge. Is this correct? -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Check out these, you should get the idea. These are classics of the art: (URL) Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) It looks good. The rear view is very interesting. I also enjoyed the 1200YF design. One thing, though. Please change the link colors on the new fighter page. The dark green on gray background is virtually impossible to read. The other pages, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I thought they were called 1x2 Plate w/ 2 Hinge Fingers 1x2 Plate w/ 3 Hinge Fingers there... If something is a 3-finger hinge, wouldn't it mean that it's a [full] hinge that has 3 fingers [total]? Say, speaking of which, Joshua once told me (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Please do that. I can't seem to visualize it with just text and ascii descriptions. With an actual picture, or maybe an ldraw rendering, someone may be able to suggest something useful. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) If a minifig is about yea tall, a microfig is about one-something-ith of that height. Basically, anything significantly smaller than a minifig. I generally don't count creatures made from just minifig legs to be microfig-scale; but rather (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Is there a way to gamma correct your pix to pick up some of the subtleties? -Tom McD. (hoping it ain't my monitor...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Microfig is a scale, not an actual figure, that is anything smaller than minifig scale. -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Grrr, Hate to show my ignorance nut what is a microfig? have I missed something or are these just hypothetical? Cheers Tim (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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followups set to trains... (...) However, they are a bit more selectively compressed than I care for. :-) Mine has two motors, of course, instead of a stubby second truck. Also, I think the shoulder isn't quite right. I never do ascii art but here (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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(...) look-and-feel that really appeals to me. Their scale and shape kinda remind me of the spacecraft seen in the movie Independence Day. (...) I've been playing with the idea of a microfig-scale fleet for a while. My first Lego aircraft were this (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Check it out! Tell me what you think! (URL) up is a Gravwell Micro-fig scale cruiser. Later, pat (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) trying (...) :-/ That's pretty much the same conclusion I came to. Unfortunately, I can't get enough stability from that with the current design. <sigh> Back to the drawing board <grumble grumble bitch bitch> I _liked_ that design too. Maybe (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) A 3 blade rotor will give the same angle geometry but I don't beleive it is what James is asking. I believe he is asking how to anchor something to the top of this assembly that is connected to all three legs. Geometrically, there is no (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Whoops, this is not what I thought. Typing too fast. If this is 2 plates, one with 2 fingers and one with 3 fingers on the end, which coupled together take the same space as a 1x5 plate would, these are "two finger" and "three finger" hinges. (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) connect (...) my (...) these (...) Have you tried a Technic 3 blade rotor? It's not *quite* what you are trying to build, but I think it should be workable. Duane (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) normally (...) to (...) a (...) Ok, it's fairly obvious I wasn't clear enough (I can't even figure out what I meant <grin>) so here is a second attempt. The part I am using as the major component of my foot design is the (aucZILLA (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) That was a help, thanks Larry. I just never had thought of its name before. (...) Yeah, I've got a bunch of those, but I always seem to run out of the black ones... (...) Lucida Console is all I use in discussion groups. But it still wasn't (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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AucZILLA term for this is 2x2 - 1x4 hinge plate (or brick, it also comes in a brick version) (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) like (...) the I've got a couple of what I would call a 2x1 hinge set[1]: ___ _ ___ |___|= _|___| Now, I'm only getting started and don't have a lot of sets, so I could have only gotten them from my Mindstorm RIS, 6572[2], 8222, 8226, 8735, or (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) normally (...) to (...) a (...) 1/3 (...) 2x2 hinge plate? In which set can I see this little monster? I have one like it, but it's a 2x2 plate turntable with fingers. I would also like to see the parts labeled in your ascii diagram, cuz I (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I think so too, but even so, TLG hasn't departed from their module... The loop on the old version was narrow enough that if you put a 1x1 tile on each side, the resulting width was exactly the same as a 1x brick in width.... the new version (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) If no one has said it yet, technic half-beams have sockets that go all the way through them, and are useful for stud entry on both sides. They are slim enough so that the studs from opposing pieces practically touch each other. Another thing (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Josh Spaulding wrote in message ... (...) I'll take this opportunity to ask if others think the newer 8-tooth gears slide on axles as if they were a worm gear (slight exaggeration). There is very little friction to hold a 8-tooth in place. I am (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) well, an ugly solution would be to use 1x1 Plates w/ Horiz. Side Loop. This causes some problems, though, because the cylindrical part between the opposing studs on the loop won't match the smooth face of the bricks you'll be connecting. (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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I've got a design problem that I'm having a hard time working around - normally I'd just drop the design, but this one has such great possibilities I'd hate to have to do that. I'm building an articulated 3-claw foot, based off of 1x4/2x2 hinge (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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The subject is under discussion in lugnet.build, which I would posit as a better group. The 1x1 with side stud is capable of changing direction in just slightly larger than 1x2 brick space. (it technically takes two of them plus a 1x1 plate) (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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I got a note offline asking about how I do the inset doors on my box cars. They were clear on how to start an offset using 1x2 tiles with center stud, but unclear on how to tie the door back in at the top. here's what I said in response: There are a (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Joseph Garlicki wrote in message <369A4873.695C@pitt.edu>... (...) Thoroughly impressive! I wish I had more Lego now... Steve ---...--- Why not visit Llegogogoch? (URL) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) A technic beam has the little rods on the bottom, just like any other 1x plate or brick. If you turn the side-stud brick sideways, with the side stud facing up, you can attach it to the bottom of the technic beam so that the little rod goes (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I have a couple of those too (because I bought all the LEGO of a friend whose brother is two years older than me, so he had older LEGO :), but they're so hard to find in my messy organization scheme, that I rarely use them. --Bram Bram (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Beautiful work. This was my first visit to your page. I really like the helicopter. Bob Fay (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Nice! (...) ++Lar (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Hello all, I have a new web page up featuring a few of my Lego creations. The most interesting thing there is my Gothic Cathedral II which was over 1 ft high and over 2 1/2 ft long. Some other creations are there as well. My Lego page can be found (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Well, there is the 1x1 brick with 4 side studs. But at times, it would be better to not have the excess studs. And the fact I only have _2_ of them really limits their use. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Can you expand on that a bit? Do you mean by turning the beam sideways?? (...) This is a fascinating topic in its own right. I feel that some wise fundamental decisions early on (actually not even TLG decisions, unless there was a dimension (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) course (...) Actually, because the side-stud brick has a hole in the stud, you could center it under a hole on another size technic beam, but it would leave 1/2 brick gaps in your construction somewhere... (...) Th enumber of ways you can (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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You're right about these youngsters having it good. I remember back around 73' or 74' having to make make due with just bricks and wheels w/a few windows and doors. Now there's more wheels in my wheel box of different sizes than I had wheels all (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Not in just two studs. If you use two technic bricks separated by 2 plates you do it, but in three instead of two. Everybody knows that one, of course. But the one you just pointed out is so VERY cool. Of course for best effect you need to use (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) If you put a technic brick on top instead of a plate, you have two studs in a vertical orientation exactly the right distance apart to place a 2 x 1 plate *vertically*. I can't think of any other way to have the same distance betwwn verical (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) These are some of the most useful bricks out there for direction changes. I must have 500 of them and I am always buying more because I run out. They have two studs and two holes. One stud is on top, one on the side, inset so that it is two (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.build)
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I have changed the Sixby Fire Tech site a bit. I have grouped the apparatus according to their type to streamline the main page. I have also created a section called - About Sixby Fire Tech, that now contains the Firefighting Terms, LDraw (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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I'm doing an SW-xxxx (probably a 1500 because it won't have top rounded windows) and I decided to do it in C&NW colors because yellow and green aren't used much in existing Train models. But I've discovered that I'm short (or have, but don't know (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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The Gantry Mill has been torn down and the major components are shown on four pages at my site. Click on "The Gantry Mill on the Inside". Sorry no commentary yet. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Already (deservedly) so, February 15-21, 1998 Fred's World Fred G. Martin, M.I.T. Media Lab -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) cool lego site of the week -- -Steven | Smile, Mickey's Watching | TDC TTAguy Think "Up" - "Down" will take care of itself (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) CLSotW? (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Could this qualify for a CLSotW nomination? Assuming it hasn't won one previously, of course... Steve (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Steve Bliss wrote (...) There is a HTML and it is... (URL) homepage is a wicked way to spend some time reading. A lot of neat stuff, ideas and history. And here it is... (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I got this when it first surfaced. Highly recommended. I'd say it has saved me 30% of my fiddle time when doing mechanisms. Since I'm not mechanical, that's pretty significant. (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Thanks, Steve. Very true, especially in white... I have to tell you that those parts gave me fits, though, as the whole assembly is rather fragile until you get plates on both the top and bottom of the plate like section that sticks out of the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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A reference was given in lugnet.robotics to a paper called "The Art of LEGO Design". To me, it sounded like an architecture piece--how to design asthetically pleasing models. Which would have been a pretty cool article, but I was wrong. This article (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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I finally got round to making a bit of room and posting some of the pics of some of my more recent work. If you surf my site, at the bottom of the buildings page you'll see my rural station. This blue/white station is intended to capture what a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I have a design at: (URL) have done a few variations on this, with different types of bricks. But since you say tou son't want the open below look, maybe this is of no help to you... Rob (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) concluded (...) Well, if they're not necessary, they might be required if one wants a "solid stair" look. Castles that use "stone" staircases most certainly can benefit by this, unless it's a wooden staircase in which case it's the wrong (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Paul, the shoelaces are almost too easy to make, for the record, here is how to do it: The supply lines are made from 5/16" wide shoelaces while the attack lines are made from 3/16" shoelace. The supply lines are easier to make. Just take a (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Thanks, Steve, very lucid and helpful replies. -- -Steven | Smile, Mickey's Watching | TDC TTAguy Think "Up" - "Down" will take care of itself (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I thought so too, but several frustrated hours (and designs) later, I concluded they were. This is mostly because I was trying for a solid spiral, not an open-below (I did play with one or two designs, but Katrine's is cleaner). The open-below (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Doh! 4. Online catalogs can be found at (URL). All specific geographic regions are available for viewing. The N.A. catalog should include all currently-available sets, even the S@H-exclusive ones Recently, this catalog has been very timely, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Good list, good descriptions, but I only counted 3. the three you did were FAQ quality answers, though. (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) (IMO) there is no definitive "LEGO Catalog". In North America, there are four different flavors of catalogs, with different purposes and levels of completeness: 1. In-box catalogs. There are basically two different versions of these: the small (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I like your design, but I don't think the tiles are neccessary. You can see one of Katrine's staircases at <URL:(URL). The whole building can be found at <URL:(URL). Other examples: <URL:(URL) <URL:(URL) Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Pretty cool, hard to believe that you can keep topping yourself each time you build something new. The walk though pump are of the pumper is pretty realistic. Just how hard are those shoelace hoses to make? Purists please take cover. (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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I do read LUGNET groups all the time, but I'm always afraid my posts will get messed up somehow, so I usually only post if I've got something new built, and such is the case now. I'm not even sure if I've got this set up correctly yet. I have added (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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('k, I'm pretty new to lugnet and rtl, pls forgive this q that's likely to be frequent) From whence does one get a catalogue? Do you mean the 8-16page booklet that's inside the sets, or is there a "real" catalog to be gotten from TLG? -- -Steven | (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) For me this issue is mainly about giving gifts to children. If *I* am looking for parts for a MOC I will probably never leave the realm of technic. If I am, on the other hand, looking for a gift for a younger child I would like (and in the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) in white. I'm sure others would be interested in the roadplate and the two straight rails. Also the inverted slope windscreens. Currently on offer at: www.auczilla.com/lego/ix/ there are 1 x 6 tiles in grey and black and 1 x 8 tiles in grey, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I would say this is a nice set to get 2 1x8 red tiles: (URL) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Pretty nice, picked one up today for my Mindstorms, too bad the large tires won't fit in there... -- ( Ickna / Nick H. ) ( (URL) ) ( Ickna@-nospam-aol.com ) ( Remove -nospam- to send ) You're not really surfing the information superhighway, you sit (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <368D93CF.3B9E29E2@c...AM.com>... (...) The Technic forklift 8248 has 4 8x1 black tiles, and is fairly cheap for a Technic set. So if you're into Technic 3 of these would do it. Moz (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) express and ANWB Breakdown (Both of which Nik built today and they go together pretty good) but those are out of production and very expensive. Doesn't the little eXtreme team airboat use a few? DO they HAVE to be 1x6, or would more 1x4s work. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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I need 12 1x6 or 1x8 smooth plates. Any color. I can get a few in the 8277 Giant Builder. Any body know of another set that has an abundance of these plates? I use them for ways on my machines. Any help is appreciated. (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Don't think I'll bother now, it's not really evident enough. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Yeah, but at the time, I thought that the gear in the cybermaster kit looked alot like the new crown gear. I also have some other evidence... (A post will follow with some proof when I can get a make-shift website up together) (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Done, Tom. I'm just now finding my way around the Lugnet groups and didn't even know the storage group existed. What a wonderful site!! Robert Wallace robertw@netcom.com (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) But there are no new gears in the CyberMaster set, are there? True, there are the yellow 3 stud diameter wheels which the tracks go round, but I would hardly call them gears? A new crown gear? Sounds plausible to me. Fredrik (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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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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(...) <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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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