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| (...) You are quite correct. The crane balances well without a load, using four large wheels and two motors as counterweights. But loaded, and with the load fully extended, the balance tips over. At full extension, it can probably not lift much at (...) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I finally got to see the page . Great work! As I was sorting Some new sets to day I thought about the Balance of the crane . Is there a way you could let hte counter weight on the beam move in and out either same as the car/grab. or maybe even (...) (26 years ago, 2-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Great idea John. Minneapolis is a sea of construction cranes right now, and I have been watching them work once in a while. There are several brands of cranes that do exactly this, they move counterweights in and out in syncronization with (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Sounds like a good idea, yes. In fact, it is already used in Ralph Muha's camcarts at: (URL) is a site worth viewing! And if you're into Technic LEGO, you may want to look at the rest of my site, at (URL) are mostly Technic vehicles there. I (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:19:47 GMT, Fredrik Glöckner uttered the following profundities... (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) have a "moving" counter weight, having been designed for the weight of the cam and nothing more. The idea of the mobile Counterweight is to be able to move it so you can use the torque(?) provided by the weight in different ways, further out (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Thanks! As a matter of fact, I'm looking into making an updated version of the white classical racer right now. The new version will be a little bit bigger and have an inline 6 piston engine rather than 4. Otherwise it will basically have the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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