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RE: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off?
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:53:43 GMT
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They make great booms for diggers and modern looking cab roofs I've • found.

Indeed so! The corrugated tubes and new angle connectors, although
inflexible in angle, are also great looking.

I'll get the photos/dat files up somewhere to show my interpretations of
your 'compact excavator' and 'bobcat'.  You can get much better clearance • on
the studless beams for parts that rotate (like the pneumatic cylinders) • as
you a) don't have the studs in the first place and b) if you do get some
touching the parts tend to slide rather than stick.

That would be very interesting to see as I remember making part of the boom
linkage for the Bobcat and really wanting some studless beams as it would
have made things far easier. I didn't have any though so used standard
beams, which worked in the end, but studless ones would have been better.

My humble attempts at your models, aka "what I did over Christmas" (both
build with lego and learn MLcad)

If you don't like MLCAD/LDRAW - don't look!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=12271


One advantage of MLcad/LDraw - I didn't have enough yellow beams so I
actually built it in black but rendered it in yellow!

Now I've got enough half beams I'm considering rebuilding the boom from a
central full beam and side half beams to avoid the nasty bulge at the bend
above the first pneumatic cylinder

William



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"William Howard" <william@howard-fami...rld.co.uk> wrote in message news:NFBBICINOLKHMIO....co.uk.... (...) taken ages to create them in MLCAD and I'm looking forward to viewing the models in greater detail when I get home. Interesting that you've (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off?
 
"William Howard" <william@howard-fami...rld.co.uk> wrote in message (...) Indeed so! The corrugated tubes and new angle connectors, although inflexible in angle, are also great looking. (...) on (...) That would be very interesting to see as I (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)

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