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Re: Practical Application for LEGO
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Date: 
Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:38:24 GMT
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> writes:

...
We opened up the pipe at one end, tied a string to the back of the crawler,
and sent it through the pipe.

It got stuck a few times.  Whenever it did, we pulled it back out of the
pipe.  It always brought some lint with it. :)  Sometimes a lot of lint. :)
:)

At one point, the crawler got stuck in the middle of the pipe, and the
motor separated from the tender.  The good news was, this was at a joint in
the pipe.  So we moved a couple of ceiling tiles, opened the pipe at that
point, and retrieved our crawler.

Once we got the string through one section of the pipe, we tied a heavier
line onto it, and pulled that through.  Then we tied a couple of towels to
the line, and pulled those back and forth, until the pipe was clean. :)
...

I'd love to try that. I suspect my air pipe is darn near plugged solid,
given how long the dryer takes to dry things. Unfortunately, I live on
the 6th floor of a condo building, and the end of the pipe is nowhere
near any balconies. And, the length of it is completely inside the walls
and a ceiling dropdown. I suspect I need professional help. :-)

--
Don't design inefficiency in - it'll happen in the implementation.

Chris Gray     cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
               http://www.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA/cg/



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  Practical Application for LEGO
 
This one isn't 'fun' in the 'fun' sense, more the 'off-beat' sense. :) When we moved into our new house, we noticed that the clothes dryer didn't work very well. We figured the exhaust pipe was full of lint. We were right. In this house, the exhaust (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.fun) ! 

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