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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GustBA.EEz@lugnet.com... (...) Hullo, Switchmaster-C! (...) What an excellent idea! It's like when Radonnaria suggested playing "Lemon Scented Downy" with foam sticks and a hair weave. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Just wanted to point out something on the IR Code Assignments. First of all it might be a good idea to avoid using Message(0), i.e. set the range for the Controller-1 to 1 throu' 18. Reason being if you do a ClearMessage() the Message() is set to a (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) When you say "have run" do you mean you were the person who kept them fed with product, emptied out the cash, reset prices, etc. or something else? If so, me too! I used to "run" (for about 2 years) the pop machine at my fraternity house. It (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Some of these guys are retired pattern makers or tool and die makers. Means that they have been at it for 25+ years! (...) Well some of them are. I am in the hacker class. :-) (...) Don't be too hard on yourselves. I feel that Lego is a tool (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Sounds good. If its in the middle of May, I won't be able to go, since I have to do two weeks of Army Training in New York state...(its 1 week of camping, and 1 week of sham-time/drinking etc). I go around the 11th of May, and should come back (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Eric Brok" <e.c.t.brok@nospampl...e.kpn.com> wrote in message news:Gusyvy.115@lugnet.com... (...) was (...) Yeah, I posted that here like... 4 days ago :) Falkirk Wheel. Iain (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GussIB.DAo@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) NO! NO!!!!!!! IT DOES NOTHING!!!!!! IT SITS THERE AND OFFERS A LOVELY VISUAL!!!!! It does absolutely nothing at all, it's silly, the cars probably (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) In a Dutch magazine I saw a concept drawing for a real-life elevator for ships, based on a giant carousel like yours. If I remember correctly it was to be constructed in Britain. Eric (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hi folks, Addled by the sounds of Bruce Cockburn's "If A Tree Falls", I've got the rtlLive1 event information up for proofing: (URL) been a bit late on this one, mainly because we need to survey the Lillian H Smith site for IR conditions. Those of (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hi folks, A while ago I mentioned we might want to do a talk at Brickfest about Lego Robotics competitions. It is entitled "Building Competition Robots". Here's the outline I've been working through. Please add your comments and suggestions-I want (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) So then can you up in the tower and look at them on each floor? (...) What about making the wheel out of ZNAP, and each carrier holding one car only. That way you can make a train by picking the sequence of cars? Do only 4 or 8 cars? It would (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I don't think they stay oriented either. They have to drop out straight as the ALCMs have expanding winglets that fold out and their flight path isn't a drop, it flies forward after clearing the bottom of the plane. IIRC the pylon launcher on (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) can see). ROSCO (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes: <french fry vender> Yes, those are cool. Ditto the popcorn venders... <great contest idea for a vending machine> (...) Good thing you're in Canada then, inasmuch as one cent Canadian may be all people (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Interesting rtlToronto factoid: Both Chris and I have run vending machines. My favourite machine was one that made french fries for you-they had one at the Etobicoke Olympium when I was a kid and it always intrigued me that a machine could (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) ... (...) I was in a guys shop once and noticed such a garbage can. So I asked the usual 20 questions. Starting out.. Er.. Are you serious? This isn't a prop for some movie?... :-) Anyway, turned out that the point of the machines was to be (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Bummer. That would so rock if it were. I wonder what the biggest item ever vended via a vending machine was. (I've seen a LEGO(r) vending machine in Oz as you know, cool robot arm and all) The idea of vending a full size car is so darn silly (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) C'mon, go for 4! Do it as a prototype. I'd love to see it work!!! -R (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GusKDG.HHz@lugnet.com... (...) somewhere. No, no, no :) The smart tower at the smart centres are simply static displays with all the various configurations of the smart (smart & pure, (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) The prototype for the great train storage machine is actually a rotary launcher for the AGM-86B cruise missiles that fit in the bomb bay of a B-52 bomber: (URL) agree there probably isn't a train-industry prototype for such a device-though (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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