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Re: Misuse of Technic Parts!
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Mon, 27 Nov 2000 02:35:19 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry writes:

BTW, that is an *awesome* little plane. I love seeing weird angles done with
LEGO - I've never had any great deal of success doing that.

Thanks!  I've never used unusual angles either.  Speaking of unusual angles,
I ended up riding the RT the other evening to Scarborough Town Centre.  I
think I may have a solution to your RT building project: Try offspacing door
and wall segments using those 2x1 plates with the single dot.  That way it
won't seem so wide because of using those 2x1x3tall buttress slopes.

BTW, with the blue express train that you have - is the motor the same as
the other ones? I seem to remember some irritatingly shaped black cowling
under the engine, and that worries me...

Yeah-same motor pack, but packaged with that evil front car chassis, which
now looks like a duck. :)  You can remove the pack from the chassis no
problem, but the chassis is pretty useless. Last check at TRU was still
$159.  Zellers should drop to ~$110 soon.

Still rerendering at 640x480, 44.1Khz stereo for MS MPEG4.  Gonna see if my
P3/750 can play it without drops.

Calum



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(...) By the by, what else are you suppose to do with those inner hubs to those old Technic tires anyway. Those tires aren't so good for robots--the rubber always slips off, which always annoyed me. I have 10 of those tires on my truck and a few (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:G4Lyzr.GDF@lugnet.com... (...) LEGO - I've never had any great deal of success doing that. BTW, with the blue express train that you have - is the motor the same as the other ones? I seem (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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