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(...) Wrong! Most of my best Technic creations were built when I had only the red motor, blue pneumatic and yellow flex sets! Now that I have 20 times that many bricks and pieces, it is soooo much harder for me to build anything decent! Too many (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That sounds great. I wouldn't be worried about burnout as much as I would just not giving people enough time to work up and complete a design. But I think this works for that. (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8868 FOS space shuttle
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(...) Heya ! How many batteries needs this LEGO ? Thanx. Rene e-mail: virsik@usaf.org (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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Speaking for myself, I feel RTL should not be carried here, and membership should be sought other ways (1). (...) I am not particularly sympathetic to this, and for me it is not a concern. (...) Too much work to configure two readers? But not to (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <36717CA7.4B0988A0@c...AM.com>... (...) They're great - I only have two, but for a while I had both assembled (built the alternate as well) and they're great models. The space shuttle is a lot of work to build, and (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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Linc Smith wrote in message ... (...) Similar. The clutches etc are, but the gear lever and H-plate are different. Moz (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh, ya, it has one micro, one big (oldstyle) regular motor, a BUNCH of gears, a big black turntable (the one you get from Dacta/Pitsco is grey) a boatload of black and white beams in all sizes, but especially long ones, some of those (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have 4 or 5, I forget which (I think 5) 3 or 4, I forget which, went straight into my parts bins. I've never built one so can't say how the gear shifter works. Maybe over winter solstice holiday I will build one, but I doubt it, no time. I'd (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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I believe I have seen this posed before and it was confirmed to be the same setup as that on the Super Car 8880. It allows a shifting mechanism to engage one of four positions at a time. It uses a gear with teeth on the outside but allows a rod (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36715fd5.156096339@...et.com>... (...) I would like to add a question: Is the gear shifter the same as in the Super car? Same components (slipping clutch mech. or ver axle extenders)? LINC (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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