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All, I am in desperate need of a particular part! I'm not sure if it has been created or not. Some pics: (URL) part is basically a small Technic steering wheel. The part was in the 10016 LD Tanker train car, and as you can see from the Peeron (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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Jake, From your detailed descriptions and pictures (thanks) , it looks to me like the piece you are looking for is 2819.dat (which is an official piece already). This needs to be updated in the Peeron set inventory by someone who has the set and can (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Oh, so close!! Actually the part I am looking for is really close to that one in design, but 2819.dat is actually a little bigger than the one I am looking for. So close! Anyone else ready to make the virtual part in exchange for real parts? (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I got your Jack Stone steering wheel right here, baby! I cheated a little- it is functional in ldraw, but looks like... uh, something that rhymes with "species". But it looks great in POV-Ray. If I had a torus generator handy I could fix half (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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Tony, My rubberbelt generator (or the derived one included in MLCad) can be used to generate toruses using 4-4cyli primitive. Simply use two identical pulley diameters and a very small distance between them. See example below... Philo (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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Here's an update using the belt generator suggestion. -Orion 0 Steering Wheel 2 x 2 x 2/3 (needs work) 0 Name: wheel.dat 0 Author: Tony Hafner <www.hafhead.com> 0 Very unofficial part 0 Steering wheel used in 10016 and in Jack Stone sets 1 16 0 -15 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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Here's an updated version with a better torus. The end result is very similar to what Orion did, though I did it slightly more manually than using the belt tool. Also like Orion, I cut out the mess of comments. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (...) 0 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad)
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