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Hi Everyone, I just created a spreadsheet that I think will be useful to many of us. It shows the lengths of possible diagonals in terms of LEGO Units. I created it because I often find myself searching by trial and error for possible diagonal (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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"Gustav Jansson" <GJansson@aol.com> wrote in message news:GBFto5.GFC@lugnet.com... <snip>> Please, if anyone has the means to create Adobe Acrobat .pdf files, please (...) </snip> I'll give it a go when I'm back in work on tuesday..... Duq (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) ---...--- snip ---...--- (...) Gus I can't download the sheet nor can I open it online. If you can email it to me I can convert and return the pdf via email, providing the document isn't too large for your mail box. Dave (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) For gear spacings, you might try: (URL) My testing shows that errors as great as 5% are usually no problem for (...) That *can't* be right. The tolerable error for two 40t gears is no different from the error for two 8t gears - so it's (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm assuming he's talking about the 12T double bevel gear. Three sets that I know of that have them are the DDK, the Technic 8448 Super Street Sensation and the Technic 8008 Stormtrooper. They have a standard 3L mesh spacing when used with a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Er oops :) that's a 2L spacing, same as 24T to 8T or 16T to 16T. (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks for the link to your gear spacing site. That is sort of what I was looking for though in my chart I aimed at being more general then just a list of workable gear spacing. My diagonal measurements can also be used to find workable beam (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes - I have such a table too - but I generated it with a program that automatically rejects unusable combinations to generate a small list of useful diagonals. (...) Ah! That makes more sense. So you mean errors of 0.05 studs - that's a bit (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Length of Diagonal Spreadsheet (Now in PDF format!)
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Thank you everyone who either offered to make a PDF file or went ahead and made one and mailed it to me. Here is the PDF version of the spreadsheet. (URL) suggest that you print it out and try out some of the diagonals. For the new 12 and 20 tooth (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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