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Subject: 
Re: Tallest lego crane
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Sat, 1 Jan 2005 06:53:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Alvin Brant wrote:

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Wow.

So what are the non LEGO things in it? The weights, obviously, and I'm assuming
the string. The wires from the control switches on the 9V train controller and
the snakecable covering them, presumably.

Anything else? What's the provenance of the long guys from the jib to the top of
the first boom and from the second boom bottom to the end? (I can't remember the
names of the crane parts at the mo) I am assuming those are not LEGO either
since they have to take tension and there isn't much in the LEGO universe that's
really long and can take a lot of tension.

Setting that up,doing the lift, and taking it down... all day project?

Spotlighted and cross posted to .build and .technic. FUT left set to .technic.

Thanks for sharing!



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  Re: Tallest lego crane
 
(...) The guy stays are made of aluminum, and are pinned together with 3 stud long axles. I have access to a computer controlled router table at work which i desgned and made the guys with. The only other thing non-lego is a bolt that goes through (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)

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  Tallest lego crane
 
Good Afternoon All. I was just curious if anyone could tell me if there is any record for the tallest lego crane model? I have just completed the first set up of my own version of a Liebherr LR-11200 Crawler Crane that is 18 feet tall (almost 6 (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.general) !! 

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