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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 (...) (25 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, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)

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