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Re: 2legged pneumatic walker
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.build
Date: 
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:31:48 GMT
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William Bell wrote:

> In lugnet.technic, Miles Gentry writes:
> > In lugnet.technic, Tom Newsom writes:
> > > I already posted about my 1/2 volume supercar II, and have been suggested to
> > > make a seperate post about my work in progress walker. It runs on pneumatic
> > > logic and (nearly) weight shifts. I'm working on it..........
> 
> Poor quality the photos might be, but the walker is superb!
> I've seen a few posts about TLG running out of ideas and the general lack of
> new pneumatics sets - your walker and the 6 legged spider one would be
> fantastic sets for Lego to produce, obviously with lots of bells and
> whistles...

That is magnificent--what's more, I really like the look of the "tubes."  Give it
some eyes.  *now*.  It looks for all the world like some kind of bizarre animal...

Hmmm...how often do you have to pump it for each step?

best

Lindsay



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  Re: 2legged pneumatic walker
 
(...) to (...) pneumatic (...) Give it (...) animal... (...) Haha! I just tried it out and it's something like 20-30 times per step. With practice you can get a reasonable pumping speed but it looks incredibly perverse! Besides, it still won't (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)

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  Re: 2legged pneumatic walker
 
(...) Poor quality the photos might be, but the walker is superb! I've seen a few posts about TLG running out of ideas and the general lack of new pneumatics sets - your walker and the 6 legged spider one would be fantastic sets for Lego to produce, (...) (26 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)

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