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Subject: 
Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
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Date: 
Fri, 30 Jul 2004 01:21:58 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie wrote:
   C’mon!, You know I had too!

The 4511 Mechsperiment

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You did a great job with the big photo e. It was like a clinic in big-mech joint-tech. I could make out what looked like a worm gear-large gear pairing for the “jumping-jack” movement of the shoulders, throwbot gear boxes for the front-back arm swing and leg swing, technic ball joint elbows, bionicle neck, AT-TE-style click hinges in the knees, and technic gearboxes in the waist and ankles. I just can’t make out the rest of the hip joint. And of course the head...

Nice mech, man!

P.S., I think we buy the same brand of little plastic parts drawers.



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  Re: The 4511 Mechsperiment
 
(...) You got it all right. Except for the 29,003 right side wedge plates. Ok the hips are a simple worm gear set up using technic triangle plates and worm gears paired to 24 tooth gears. 2x4 plates with technic holes secure them. See here: (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)

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  The 4511 Mechsperiment
 
C'mon!, You know I had too! (URL) The 4511 Mechsperiment> (URL) Some time ago, I just knew what I had to do. So finally did it. (URL) I used 1 million Mini-figs in this seven foot tall Mecha. It features 780,002 left monkey arms and 425 left white (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.trains, FTX)

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