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Hear is the situation. I am roughly 3/4 of the way through building a rather large space cruiser and I need some landing gear to support it. I have a couple of retractable designs, but they won't work in the space I have alotted. The gear must (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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Sounds cool. I want to see pictures! As for landing gear, I never really use it. I usually just support the ship with a pyramid of technic beams whil e still working on it and sometimes for photos. But for landing craft..... Pat J (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) How much clearance should the ship have when the gear are extended? Steve (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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When I am finally done, I am going to take pictures of it - definitely! There are too many new ideas in it that I want to document. It has a two man cockpit, crew quarters for four, ops station, four cryo chambers, four escape pods, and two mission (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) alotted. (...) able (...) I would like to be able to stand a 1 x 8 or 1 x 12 on end (just a reference length). That would be from the attaching plate similar to below. I'm flexible just as long as it clears a 1 x 8 on end. I hope this helps. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Ummm, C5 Rocket cartridges are available at your local hobby store.... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- A picture is worth a thousand words, but very few sets of a thousand words can be adequately described by a picture... ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Yeah baby! Cryo-chambers with sunroofs! :) (...) How many studs long and wide is this ship now? (...) You'd have to send a picture or twelve before I could offer advice on engines. They need to match the lines of the ship and there's a few (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Yeah, You know the ones! The sunroof helped cut down on the effects of minifig claustrophobia during initial cryo-chamber door-latch developement. (...) it (...) Currently about 90 long by 32 wide plus the start of an engine design on each (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) That's quite hard to photograph indeed. Perhaps you can overexpose slightly, to get some more details in the black texture. The images may come out a bit greyish, but you can adjust them after the scanning procedure, so that you get black (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.publish)
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I have taken a lot of pictures of black space craft. Some bad some good. The trick that i think works best is taking pictures outside on a overcast afternoon. Lots of diffuse light works well. No digital camera can photograph a black model inside (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Very cool. I'd love to see how the landing gear works out! (...) Be sure to include a structural integrity field so the ship doesn't sag under its own weight ;) (...) much (...) engines. (...) Excellent. (...) At (URL) see my castle wall (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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How is the landing gear for the Technic Space Shuttle designed? Is there anyone who is willing to scan in details of their instructions and E-mail them to me? I am wondering if that is a design that could be easily modified for my purposes. Duane (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Perhaps, but keep in mind that the 8480 landing gear is very complicated. You probably can copy all the details in it, but it will still be quite hard to incorporate in a different model. And another thing, I don't think the 8480 landing gear (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) It may be complicated, but if it functions correctly I don't see a problem. (...) I haven't solidified my model yet, so incorporation is still possible, even if I have to relocate the evacuation pods and nacelles. (...) I want to look at the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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My Millennium Falcon model has four landing gear that retract and lower with pnuematic cylinders. The scale seems to be close to what you are looking for. In order to be successful though, I needed six bricks of clearance in the stowed position. You (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) landing (...) the (...) up (...) I've seen your model before. I must congratulate you on a job well done. I've thought about using pneumatics, but placing the cylinders so that I can get a full 90 degrees or more of movement has escaped me. I (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) It's a bit off-topic, but for extending the range of motion past 90 degrees, you might want to look at my excavator model. There are basically three kinds of pneumatic linkages illustrated, and I think the ones you want to look at closely are (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) alotted. (...) I just wanted to send out an update on the subject to let all of those who have responded know how things are progressing. I have been able to design a retractable system similar to the Technic Space Shuttle which fits within a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I wanted to send out a mesage to those who helped me with the landing gear on this craft. I found a design that worked and was able to withstand the weight. However, I have recently moved all of my Lego collection from the spare bedroom (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.build)
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