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Re: Tinkering the 8880 suspension setup
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Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:43:33 GMT
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wvw@earthlink.net (De Bengel) writes:
> That's basically the same as the setup of the 8880, except for the
> wheels. Does it work well?
I dunno, I haven't got one. Moz should be able to answer that.
I suspect that the weight of the body of the 8865 is a tad bit too large
for this setup. I'm fearing that the front wheel axles will "twist",
making the wheels stand out on the lower side. This wasn't too clear,
so I'm illustrating this below:
/___\
/ \
If this happens, the front axles will "lock up", causing trouble. But
as I said, I haven't played around with the 8865, so I don't know if
this is a problem.
> So why didn't they change the length of the links, instead of making
> that small rack with ball joints? They could have reused the smaller
> links in other sets, but that small rack never reappeared.
True. LEGO moves in mysterious ways. Or something.
> So the flex system is the way to go? Even though it is not a rigid
> system?
Well, I'm not too much of a fan of the flex cables myself. But they did
work well for me when building the X1/9. But then again, I never
actually played around with the model.
Nowadays, I prefer to build small vehicles, because they are much more
playable. Take the 8880 as an example. It's quite large and has lots
of functions, but it's almost impossible to actually drive around. To
see the effect of the different speeds, for example, you need to drive
it several meters. And it takes a lot of space for a simple U turn. I
don't know about you people, but the space in my apartement is a bit
small for this sort of thing.
But I still feel the urge to build something large again. Perhaps some
time in the future.
I also wanted to say that you don't actually need the specialized pieces
to make an independent front suspension. You can actually make what you
need yourself. I wanted to put up some info on this on my homepage, but
the server is temporaily down, so I can't. You can pick up some images,
though, if you want to, to get you a basic idea of how to do it. Make
that "one way to do it", though, as I'm sure there are many other ways
as well. Here it is:
http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~fredrikg/
Don't bookmark this, 'cause it's gonna go away pretty soon to appear on
my regular homepage instead.
Fredrik
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 | | Re: Tinkering the 8880 suspension setup
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| (...) I thought of that too. Especially now that I have a 8414. The tracks pull the axis back and almost lock up the driveshaft. (...) <snip> (...) occurs strong enough? ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: Tinkering the 8880 suspension setup
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| Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) 8865? Yeah, works very well, and better yet has standard axle holes. So you can mount any wheel on them. The only hassle is that you get two in each 8865, so you need to buy tow copies. And it's really (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Tinkering the 8880 suspension setup
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| (...) That's basically the same as the setup of the 8880, except for the wheels. Does it work well? (...) So why didn't they change the length of the links, instead of making that small rack with ball joints? They could have reused the smaller links (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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