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Re: New MOC: Beach Buggy
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Date: 
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:44:33 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
I've made a Technic Beach Buggy with independent front suspension.  It
    http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/

On the page, it says that due to the lower suspension arm being
shorter, the angle of the wheel changes a tiny bit with suspension
travel. I'm having trouble imagining which way the wheels would tilt,
but could this be adapted to provide significant tilt that evens out
the sideways shift of the wheel center as the suspension travels?
(I tried it before briefly, but without much success.)
Another idea - could one use the rotation of the axle that
holds the suspension arm to move the suspension in/out, to
where the wheel does not move sideways at all, without
tilting it as above? (On a non-steering axle of course - changing
steering arm lengths would be a bit much)(For 8880-size vehicles,
really, as the sideways travel isn't so bad with the limited
suspension travel of a small car.)



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  Re: New MOC: Beach Buggy
 
(...) That's an interesting idea! I've pondered a bit about this, and I think the wheels tilt the correct way, but I'm not quite sure about it. I'll take a look at the model when I come home. Now I understand why some car manufacturers advertise (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

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  New MOC: Beach Buggy
 
I've made a Technic Beach Buggy with independent front suspension. It is made in the Technic LEGO style, meaning that the body is not full; it is only outlined by the Technic bricks. I'm not too happy with the front windscreen and the seats, but (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

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