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Subject: 
Something I'm working on...PIC!
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Date: 
Thu, 8 May 2003 01:46:30 GMT
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Since there is not too much happening on here tonight I figured I might as
well give you guys something to look at, to get an idea of what I have been
working on for a while now.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/FlyingDutchman/Sneekpeek/project.jpg

The colours are all wrong, it is not tall enough yet, and I need to find and
buy a lot more parts before I can finish it. A lot of the work is hidden. I
have spent a week rebuilding that boom in many different ways until I got
the lightest, smoothest, smallest and most efficient version, now I need to
make it a bit longer. During this time I have tried many combinations of
bricks and liftarms and in the end bricks worked much better in some areas,
but liftarm completely dominate other areas.

Can guess what it is? Should be easy...

Gerard



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  Re: Something I'm working on...PIC!
 
(...) Hmm... a mobile crane? :) Looks good. Someone showed me (can't remember who - Wayne?) a method for attaching pneumatic cylinders back to back like that, so that the cylinder bodies are rigid. You wouldn't need that pivoting standoff, so it (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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