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Just a quick report of my recent findings. Argos seem to be stocking all the HP sets online (spose they couldn't miss out before christmas), and are currently doing a spend £50 get a £5 voucher (instore). Woolies are doing all soccer sets 1/2 price, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Off course, the real solution to this problem is for Lego to re-release ZNAP. After a few weeks we could all get motors and cables for pennies each….but not at TRU as they *still* sell it at full RRP! Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Boooo... Metroliner ship date moved back to 30 September :-(
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(...) Does anyone have their's yet? The site still has "Backorders Accepted, will ship in 30 days"?? (A worried) Scott A (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Thanks for the tip - I thought they'd sold out completely. I've just ordered five, along with a motor and some more sand-red bulk bricks. I guess I'll not be buying one of those discount X-Wings after all... Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) into (...) Exactly the same here, and indeed they can be a little deformed at the end of the process, although it doesn't matter much. Using something very flat like tweezers or the end of a small penknife may be better than a flat end (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) What I've done for a couple of point motors is cut a short cable in half, then attached a Maplin 'battery connector' to each end. These are fairly tiny flat rectangular plugs with a pin and a socket side-by-side. They're discrete, and hold (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) That is somewhat of a pain, for a while now I have been creating leads to "custom" lengths by cutting up the longer one you mention and reattaching connectors from shorter leads to the new segments. This seems to be remarkably easy once you (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | STAR WAR Collector Series: X-WING FIGHTER.... for £60
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STAR WAR Collector Series: X-WING FIGHTER.... for £60 See: (URL) per part can't be bad. Scott A (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Running out of 9v wires is a common problem! The bulk bricks section of Lego Shop At Home still has individual 9cm 9v leads for the rather steep price of £3.99 each (item no. 5041). I'm sure they used to do some 28cm leads as well, but they (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Hi, Just a "heads-up" for anyone intending to go to this - we went to yesterday's show and arrived about 3PM. The queue stretched out onto the public road and staff were turning away anyone without a pre-purchased ticket or season pass! Apparently (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.legoland.windsor)
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(...) The dial just bridges tracks on a PCB. It uses an in-line resistor packet as a 'ladder', which controls the input to a voltage regulator IC (on a big heatsink). The output of that goes back to the controller for forward/reverse switching. I've (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jason J. Railton (<GLtzDM.30A@lugnet.com>) wrote at 20:53:46 (...) Ah. I was wondering if you wanted to run an RCX off the track. I think I'd use the Control Centres that I have for constant 9V. Although I've been collecting (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Well what you'll miss is your nice trains as they go flying off at the corners! The point is to still use the train controller for its primary purpose, to whit, controlling trains. But, to also tap off the main supply a steady 9V for running (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jason J. Railton (<GLtLBq.EJL@lugnet.com>) wrote at 15:50:14 (...) Mark Morgan may still have some Exploration Mars sets (9736). These come with very long wires, and I'm keeping mine :-) (...) What's wrong with just turning the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Does anyone in the UK have any spare, or a source of 9V wires? I'm rapidly running out as I electrify things, and the only ones I can buy are either in the motor kit or the train lighting kit. I'm also looking to modify my train controller to output (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Woolies sale
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yes its on all lego sets, even the Harry potter ones I brought in there last week ... _sulk_ some of the other sets are reduced further too. the pocket money soccer sets are down to 99p etc.. -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 "Gael (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) bunch (...) That'll be the same bunch at BT who took 6 weeks to get my line sorted properly. They had to pay me almost £300 compensation. I have never seen such incompetence and counter-productive policies in all my life. They out-source the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Hi, It seems to be ALL lego sets, even Harry Potter ! Can be a good deal if you buy 3 at the same price. It's the cheapest free. (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Which sets is the offer covering, dude? Darth Joules "James Stacey" <james@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:GLLLLz.Cnu@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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1/2 price toy sale on again in Woolworths buy 3 Lego sets for the price of 2 -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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