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I've just posted a drawing explaining how to extend a railway layout when the track slopes at the point of extension, without intrducing an excessive change of slope. (URL) is used in my new large layout, which will be 16ftx12ft (37x28 of 16x16 (...) (19 years ago, 1-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.technic)
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| | Merrist Wood Summer Show - Lego Display 21/5/06
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Following on from Yateley Fest I'm starting to look at putting together the Merrist Wood Display. This will be at Guildford College's Merrist Wood Campus on SUNDAY the 21st of May. Last year's was a great success; the college staff are universally (...) (19 years ago, 28-Feb-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Estimate wanted
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(...) Thanks for checking Psi, I went to Birmingham's PaB yesterday, they have grey,black and red 2x2's. I'm going to town again next week so I'll pick some up. 1.5p each is a good price. Steve (19 years ago, 16-Feb-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Estimate wanted
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(...) I've just tested it for you and without any clever packing I say about 700. But I've never seen 2x2 tiles at any PaB. Also last time I looked the big cups were £11 Psi (19 years ago, 15-Feb-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Estimate wanted
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How many 2x2 tiles could I get in the largest PAB cup? And are they still £16? Steve (19 years ago, 15-Feb-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | April 8th 2006 - Piece-by-Piece South Hants
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For the thrid year I am organising the Piece-by-Piece South Hants show. When: Sat April 8th 2006 Where: Main Hall, Community Centre, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 4BW Entrance: Free (public 11:30am to 2:30pm, others 9am to 5pm) Like before, the plan (...) (19 years ago, 4-Feb-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Best Pick a Brick Store?
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Hi Chris, I've only been to three PaBs: Birmingham, Milton Keynes and Legoland (which wasn't at the best time) so this may not be the best summary but I'll go ahead. Perhaps other people can cover the stores I've not been too. (...) These are good (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Best Pick a Brick Store?
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(...) Hi Tim, (...) What I'm mostly after is: - slopes (all types) - wedges - wings - plates (blue/yellow/white) - bricks (blue/yellow/white) - other greebling style pieces (mostly minifig stuff) Not really after: - Technic (any) - Red and Black of (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Best Pick a Brick Store?
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(...) Hi Chris, I'm not aware of any super PaB store. The best Lego store in many ways is Busy Bee in Manchester (where I live) because it has a good selection of old sets but it has no PaB. It might help if you can be more specific about what (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Best Pick a Brick Store?
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(...) Thanks Tim, My wife and I are going to Scottland and ending our trip in Edinburgh, after that I have 1 day of shopping + 1 day to get to the plane. So we can go to any store, but not all shops, I guess I'm trying to find out if any particular (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Best Pick a Brick Store?
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(...) Thanks Tim, My wife and I are going to Scottland and ending our trip in Edinburgh, after that I have 1 day of shopping + 1 day to get to the plane. So we can go to any store, but not all shops, I guess I'm trying to find out if any particular (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Best Pick a Brick Store?
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(...) Hi Chris, Firstly, which part of the country will you be in? The UK is tiny compared to Aus but it still makes a difference. One day of shopping is a lot more shopping if you go to a PaB nearby. Brickish association has a bulk tracker (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Best Pick a Brick Store?
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Hi to the UK! I am traveling to the UK in September, and would like to include a bit of lego shopping. Unfortunatly infomation is a bit light, so I wonder if anyone here could help with a few queries? Which of the Pick-A-Brick Lego stores has the (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | 12v Train - rubber wheel rims (service packs 5067 and 1138)
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Hi, Does anyone know whether it's possible to get replacement or substitute rubber wheel rims for the 12v train motor? My original ones have either perished or gone so hard and fragile I don't want to risk using them. Unfortunately without them you (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Underground part 4: London Tube
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My fourth city by underground, and the only one I've actually ridden on: the Tube. This MOC is my take on 1992 London Tube stock. To be prototypical these should really use the small train wheels so they sit much lower to the ground but once again I (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk, FTX)
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| | Useful Track and Electrical Data
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Regular browsers of Brickshelf might have noticed that I added a new track plans section to my gallery: (URL) the 9V folder (URL) there are useful modules such as Curves (URL) and Double Bends (URL) , conforming to various minimum radii depending on (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Yateley Fest 2006 (UK) - 29/01/06 - details
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Less than one week to go! David (19 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Lego trains at Saltcoats, Scotland
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I will be displaying my LEGO trains at the Model Railway Exhibition in Saltcoats, on Saturday 28th Jan 10:00 - 17:00 & Sunday 29th 12:00 - 16:00. It is at the Old Town Hall in the town centre. It is a hand on layout foor the children to opperate - (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: James May's Top Toys
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(...) It didn't go, Eric...we ended up on the cutting room floor. I was hugely disappointed. We jumped through all the hoops the BBC set for us. Yvonne even got an email three days before broadcast, reminding her the show was on...and then we (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: James May's Top Toys
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(...) So how did it go? How did it go?! ??? e (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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