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(...) Here's what I did: I have stacked 3 modules. The North and South face of the stack has two vertical 1x2s bolted to each module, and a diagonal brace bolted to the top and bottom module, making an "N" shape on the north and south face. This (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) No worries on that--i'll have a milk crate full of track, and another bin full of cars, engines, and buildings (2, mebee 3, depends if i wanna bring my apartment house), and 3 modules :) Dave (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hey Dave, Can you bring one extra peice of track for me... I am short by 1 peice!!!! How frustrating... Jeff VW (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well, I for one really like the videos, and i don't think theyd be complete without the POV footage (but I haven't attended a train event yet, so what do I know). If youre looking for something else, Active Surplus (345 Queen Street West) (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I should have lots of straight track for the original layout I had in mind for the train yard was on 6 modules, but I'm only bringing 3 (other 3 aren't built yet) So there you are. I'll try to get some way of distinguishing my track from (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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hi... just letting everyone know that I took some more shots, and here is the latest views. I am 85% of it done at this point....still waiting on a shipment of (brown)roofing material from the (plastic) building supplier. The pics were uploaded to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Not at all! A chapel sounds great! I've asked Iain to bring a second spacer. So we'll have two spacers, one on each side. One spacer will likely include a switch to link to Dave's yard. Anyone have 12 pieces of straight to put onto the second (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Not necessarily. I'm not sure if the Digital8 has it, but most Sony 8mm cameras have a 2x playback function that's pretty clean. My Sony SVHS has a 2x playback, so I guess I could dub it in at realtime, then capture it at 2x. (...) I have a (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That could be slightly hazardous to the robot's health... :) (...) I wonder what happened to Chris' old tag line: "see new robot walkers at xxxxx.com"? Ben (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) If you can spare a Qui Gon and an Obiwan, I'll bring 2 "standard" minifigs from my collection....with the plain, regular smiley face. I won't be able to make it to the dinner, (at least I don't think so), since this weekend I have Guard Drill. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) How about a Bridge Too Far. Going with the Scrap Heap Challenge theme, we could do bridging robots. Set a fixed distance between two tables, and an initial robot size that is smaller then the gap. Your robot must make it from one table to the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Anyone want some Star Wars minifigures? I have a number of them-R2D2, C3P0, Qui Gon Jinn, Jar Jar, and Obiwan.* If anyone would like them, I'll bring them to Friday's dinner. It'd be cool if you could bring in Town figures in trade, but even if not, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) 2x2, I think. I think Chris helped me chop them down to 24 inches each (eight feet). I drilled in three holes in each, making the spacing about 21-22 inches between each module. I bolted them in an offset fashion (one on each side on the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Thanks! I had fun (...) Of course, I have nuttin' to say about snivving ideas for there was Bruces' ideas, Iain's ideas a,d a slew of others that I somehow amalgamated into Runamok 'bots. (...) I'm not doing much of my own programming, either. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) :) I was thinking of that just last night..... I think I will need to do some module stacking (RTL 11???). Calum, did you use 1 x 2 peices of plywood to stack your modules? What am I going to do when I want to build more modules... (because I (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Jeff Van Winden" <Jvwinden@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:GpLEE0.7Kq@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) (Looks like I *can* make it to train3 after all, btw.) I think we found at the MONLUG train show that the width of the eluraCar is extremly (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yes. I was chatting with Iain about this and plan to have Vol1: rtl4-6 video train1 video train2 video rtl9 video These total 270MB alone. I also will put in all the photos from all the rtlToronto events so far. I figure it's time for a wget (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'm really been impressed with the current Season 6 UK episodes of Junkyard Wars. Maybe something inspired from the challenges like the garbage collection episode? (...) So when did you hold the patent on gantry robots? I find your accusation (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) and here is the update: I worked on the clock tower, and it really looks fantastic...look for a "sneak peak" tomorrow. I will take a phase 4 set of pics.... still haven't ordered the roof tiles.... and that is all I need to finish it!! pics to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) If the robot has to start off the board and end off the board, this ruins my feeble plan. I do have an idea to compinsate for this, but I'd like to know. Meanwhile, I'm scared. I'm not having fun learning NQC, and I want to go back to RCX1.0 (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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