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Re: Quarry
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Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:03:36 GMT
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I remeber seeing a very similar thing to this in the mid-late eighties at the (UK) model engineering exhibition. They used the technic vehicles straight from the sets i.e.



as well as a conveyor they made.
I’m not certain how they did the automation.

One thing I think you could improve for next time is the link between the cannister and the digger to make it less obvious that the stuff is going round in circles.

Very good and a nice video, thank god for bandwidth at work!

Tim



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"Tim David" <talltim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:HI2Eu0.GEq@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) from (...) (URL)¬¬ (...) (URL)¬ (...) automation. (...) round (...) Thanks, Tim. Actually, that was intentional. We wanted people to see that we were (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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NELUG recently participated in the LEGO Roadshow. We decided that we wanted to do something special for the event, so we built a fully automated quarry scene that had working vehicals with a Rube-Goldberg feeling to it where "gravel" would (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town) !! 

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