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Re: lube....
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Date: 
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:07:19 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Derek Raycraft writes:
> Calum Tsang wrote:

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> Another solution is to consider the fact that Lego is the worlds largest tire
> manufacturer.  There's no reason this design couldn't have been changed to have
> tires running on the tiles.  This would eliminate the damage caused by running
> bricks on tiles.  If done right this would also reduce the friction in the design.

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> Derek
All of these lubriciant comments, and no mention of using lego lubricant...
i.e. OILY TIRES!!!!

Jeff VW



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  Re: lube....
 
(...) I was thinking about that. I've actually received bricks that were almost dripping with mold release. Derek (25 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) I see competitive advantage. To take an example from our recent contest: Several X-bots used bricks sliding on tile designs. Many of these bots had piles of generated dust afterwards. It is, however a design decision to use bricks running on (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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