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Re: What are your favorite Lego WHEELS of all time?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 6 Feb 2003 06:57:28 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Stéphane Simard writes:
> > Well, it may be a surprising choice for a Technic-head, but my fave is
> > http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/x176 as it is the only way to get
> > free-wheeling pulleys without taking a drill to these
> > http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/4185
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> > Unfortunately, they're not 1 stud wide, so they "float" along the axle. This
> > can be useful, but generally it's a bit of a bummer.
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> It looks like they would be most useful on very large cranes, or in
> creations where you can't find free holes to put 3 length axles in (for the
> standard pulley). Maybe I should order a bunch of them, they don't come in
> any Technic set...
They come in <set:8462> and are used in the pulley manner. The problem is when
you need to use more then one pulley on the same axle:
Part of TJ's Marine Crane
http://www.texbrick.com/creations/marine_crane/mc6.jpg
ROSCO's "small" All terrain crane:
http://www.lugnet.com/~469/projects/allterraincrane
Jennifer Clark's All terrain crane:
http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk/jen/lego/demag_crane.htm
I think I'll have to make a crane some day :)
Best regards,
/Tobbe
http://www.lotek.nu
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| (...) It looks like they would be most useful on very large cranes, or in creations where you can't find free holes to put 3 length axles in (for the standard pulley). Maybe I should order a bunch of them, they don't come in any Technic set... (22 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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