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Re: Worms and racks (was Re: No more track power connectors??!!??)
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:56:07 GMT
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jrclark@/nomorespam/nospam.aol.com
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Well, Brickbay.com does have several hundred of each, so perhaps that's
also a workable option for you.
~540 rack gears (1x4): http://www.brickbay.com/search.asp?pg=5&q=Rack
~280 worm gears: http://www.brickbay.com/search.asp?q=worm
Prices run between $.20 and $.50 ea, and several sellers can sell you as
many as 50-80 at a time.
Good luck!
Rick Clark
Matthias Jetleb wrote:
> I'm not generally one for complaining since I'm of the opinion that.
> for the most part, Lego Direct has been doing an excellent job in
> meeting our needs but....
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> After spending over $1000.00 in the last four months at LD, I've run
> into my first annoying snag:
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> I'm trying to compete in rtlToronto's upcoming robotics contest which
> involves building a Cartesian robot which move blocks around on a 50 x
> 50 gray base plate. My particular design idea calls for lots of worm
> gears and racks (the 4x1 gray brick with teeth). I've used up all the
> worm gears that came with my RCX's (2)/RDS (1), and several technic
> models, but I need more. (I'm trying to make a screw that's 50 studs
> long) I've already used up my 7 worm gears and 19 racks. After 32
> years of collecting Lego, I would have thought I would have had more,
> especially worm gears, but apparently not. Anyway, I went looking for
> a service pack, but there aren't any with worm gears, so I called S@H
> thinking that since several technic cars currently for sale use these
> parts, and, since people who are missing parts can request
> replacements, that I could just request a few myself. Given that I
> wasn't replacing missing parts from models, I would have been quite
> happy to pay for them, but S@H steadfastly refused to cooperate. I
> could see it if I wanted the parts for free, or if I was claiming to
> want replacement parts for models I don't have, but give me a break,
> they can't be in that short supply!? It was suggested that I buy some
> models that contain the parts, but most models that have them have at
> most, two worm gears (and usually only one) which would get quite
> expensive if you only need five. I suppose there's always Brickbay,
> but I've tried to limit myself to buying only from Lego. This was a
> huge disappointment.
>
> <snip>
>
> What gives?
>
> Matthias Jetleb
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