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| (...) I have succeeded in directly cascading trinary pneumatic stages (where cylinders stop in the middle). This is a direct development of my mid-stop pneumatic JCB steering mechanism, which I first described here two years ago: (URL) (second (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | | | London Underground D78 Subsurface Stock
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| Mind the Gap! (URL) This is my D78ss train. It is the second of my three LU creations and the second one to be functionally complete (the first still isn't). (URL) The D78 stock (or just 'D stock') runs solely on the District line and numbers 75 (...) (19 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: London Underground 1995 Tube Stock
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| (...) Thanks so much for showing this. I was actually on that train on the Northern Line on Sunday musing about how to build it in Lego and was very pleasantly surprised to see it appear yesterday. It is such a faithful reproduction in six wide that (...) (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: London Underground 1995 Tube Stock
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| Having travelled in that stock for a good few years (on the Northern Line), that is most certainly a well recognisable rendering. I wander if someone has built a suitable Lego tunnel for it. Of all the northern Line stations, the one that has be (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: London Underground 1995 Tube Stock
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| (...) No-one is in there yet. It is really too small to have interior detail (with much of the interior taken up with the structuring). David (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: London Underground 1995 Tube Stock
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| (...) ... (...) David, the train looks great. It's amazing you could get a scale train in at a 8 brick max hieght. I'll have to try the WD-40 myself. Does it have any interior detail, or a driver in the cab? I'm horribly lazy about building (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | London Underground 1995 Tube Stock
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| Mind the Gap! (URL) This is my 95ts train. It is the third of my LU creations but the first one to be functionally complete. The 1995 Tube Stock was built by GEC Aslthom Metro Cammell (now Alstom) as part of the PFI (priviate finance initiative) for (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
| | | | | Strongest bridge contest at LEGOWorld 2005
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| Hello, FreeLUG (with the agreement of organizators) would like to organize a building contest : build the strongest bridge with LEGO Parts. If you like building bridge with LEGO parts, and want to test the resistance of it, this challenge is for you (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.events.legoworld, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.org.fr.freelug, lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
| | | | | The Great Ball Contraption at LEGOWorld
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| Hello European AFOL :-) FreeLUG (French LUG) would like to do a big (URL) Ball Contraption> at LEGOworld this year. we have about ten modules at this time. To increase the size of this (URL) GBC>, we would like to invite all AFOL, who planned to (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.events.legoworld, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.be, FTX) !!
| | | | | Lego Soldiers for sale
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| Hi all, In my Bricklink store (URL) I am selling some of my own design soldiers. The whole army (not all for sale) can be seen here: (URL) are riflemen: (URL) to lead them are available too (though limited availability means 1 officer available for (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
| | | | | New Diagrams of Basic Pneumatics Parts and Circuits
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| I've just uploaded some new pneumatics diagrams, the sort that could guide people towards the complex systems we've been discussing in .technic: All were originally drawn in Visio. The circuits themselves are all ones used in official sets, the last (...) (19 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.cad)
| | | | | Re: BBB Train Hand Car - Quarter Bushes
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| (...) Thanks Dean, The best photo I have of the quarter bushes in use is this one of the LMS Garratt: (URL) bushes are behind the triangular brackets hat hold the middle driving wheels. Ben: I guessed you'd need the liftarm exactly in the middle (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | | | More Little Artists
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| Hi all, Since I've been a little addicted to the little artists lately, I've founf another link with a bunch of pictures of their recreations of famous modern art pieces out of our favourite toy. (URL) on the links to see pictures of varius famous (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Truckfest/Scotfest
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| 29th October 2005. The Boat Club, Aberdour, Fife. In an attempt to open it up to all Brickish members it is called a Truckfest. This is because at the last Scotfest it was suggested we each build a 8-wide minifig scale truck. It can be any length - (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | | | Re: PromoBricks.com needs your help! (Pictures of Lego stores)
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| (...) (Breezes through Lego's pictures (URL) what's the deal with Illinois? They've got "Woodfield, IL" and "Schaumburg, IL" as two different stores, despite the fact that they point to the same store! (Woodfield looks like it immediately bounces (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.de)
| | | | | Re: PromoBricks.com needs your help! (Pictures of Lego stores)
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| Mark, You can find pictures of most of the store fronts on the LEGO.com site using the store locator. Of course these pictures are property of LEGO.com but if you asked nicely they might let you use them for your site....never hurts to ask. jt (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
| | | | | Re: PromoBricks.com needs your help! (Pictures of Lego stores)
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| (...) It is probably worth mentioning that some malls do not allow pictures to be taken inside the mall, and even if some malls do allow them, individual stores can still say no. I know this from experience. Russell BayLUG/BayLTC (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
| | | | | PromoBricks.com needs your help! (Pictures of Lego stores)
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| Hello everybody! While I was checking out the newest Lego store in Ontario, CA (ok, getting the opening bricks would be a better term) I thought it would be nice to try to get a basic picture of the front of each Lego store that has issued a (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.de, FTX)
| | | | | Argos deals
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| Just thought I'd point out that Argos is flogging the 7237 2005 Police Station (Which has some nice parts, especially the base) bundled with a FREE 10159 AIRPORT!!! At the risk of sounding like some sort of sales pitch: That's insane! I was going to (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | | | Flogging more stuff
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| I don't mean it to be that most of my postings to this group are to sell things, however my time presently is quite limited for Lego ;-) However, I have yet more items to sell, this time on eBay: (URL) course I'll combine postage. I have more stuff (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jul-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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