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Friday, we fired up the newest Viper to be built at Ventax. This will be the fastest one yet. The tipspeed as it passes through its centrepoint, once we get it up to 100%, will be appr. 117 km/h. Right now in these videos, which I shot today, it is (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Iain... I down loaded the "raw" footage, and... and... holy ca ca! Its cool to see what you do with Lego, but to see this and know you were a MAJOR influence in its design and fruition.... WOW! :) man, your so cool. no go and build me a lego axle (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Amazing! Why do you even bother with Lego? Rob "Iain Hendry" <militaryduckjock@rogers.com> wrote in message news:HE2xz8.19p1@lugnet.com... (...) 52sec, (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) What's amazing IIRC about the Viper and ViperSE is that the idea was originally pitched by Iain to his boss with a Lego model. Isn't that cool? Calum PS-cooler than a $104 track cleaner. (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) let me get this straight.... $104 USD for a bit of steel, and some round felt. for $104 (or less) someone could rig up a new mindstorms sensor that measures the resistance of the track and trigger a motor to clean the required section. (using (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Calum is on a tirade... ;) Chris is on a build unique 'bot spree... (paper folding and now track cleaning 'bot) Dave's on a train layout building spree... Rob hasn't said much... At least Iain's still posting great video footage of awesome (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I dunno, I'd just hire some college kid to clean the track for me. Iain (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Is it ever any different? :) I'm just surprised how many people can rationalize a $150 product that is nothing more than a metal bracket and a felt roller and is of questionable effectiveness. Are people that lazy, or are there that many (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) What??? I just order 3 of these for us!!! One for each loop of the layout. I've even started licensing discussions with Centerline so we can produce rtl branded versions of them. I thought this was going to be a big seller and everyone would (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I probably make it out to sound a lot more glorious than it really is... I mean, it's fun sometimes, but there's just an unbeliveable amount of frustration (and I'm assuming that's standard in any job) and it doesn't seem to be outweighing the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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