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"Joe Strout" <joe@strout.net> wrote in message news:I30Ju4.1MIp@lugnet.com... (...) Honestly, what I do is a little brute force , but it works nicely. Take a small pair of needle nose pliers and grip the cylinder in such a manner that one jaw of (...) (22 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | how to remove center of 2x2 brick?
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I tried my very first part mod today -- my objective was to drill a clean hole in the side of a 2x2 brick, and then remove the center cylinder from the inside of the brick so I have room to stuff some things therein. The hole in the side of the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | Re: how to get started with pneumatics?
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(...) Joe, I own many 8455 backhoes. You can also buy pneumatics at bricklink.com. Once you get some pneumatics, you might want to look at a few sites that feature pneumatics: www.kclague.net (URL) (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) [snip] (...) Hi Joe, The Technic Backhoe #8455 is a great pneumatics set with ten big cylinders. It does not include any small cylinders and it uses only new studless Technic liftarm parts, no studded beams. Personally, it's one of my all time (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: how to get started with pneumatics?
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(...) one word: Backhoe set 8455 (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.robotics)
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If I wanted to get started with LEGO pneumatics, how would I go about it? A search at the S@H site turned up no hits in the parts or kits, and even Dacta seems to have only one kit: (URL) ...which might be OK, but it's pretty limited, and contains a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Motivating CAD students to model LEGO (was prototyping)
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(...) I am amazed that the architecture students would need any motivation to design with legos. Being an architect myself I cannot even fathom the thought! One suggestion would be to ask the students to try and model their previous projects using (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: Home made weight bricks and train base plates
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(...) Unfortuneatly the drips of solder would not stick to each other, so unless you put a few drops of glue in afterwards to hold it all togather, you'd loos you weights. But this isn't a bad solution. It would fill the brick near solid, and the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | Re: Home made weight bricks and train base plates
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(...) Thanks guys, This will do nicely. I've used theis alloy before, but had no idea where to buy more. Mat (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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(...) Mark, The old hollow brick sounds OK, but I'd want them in new looking black ABS, or dark grey. Besides, once I glue it shut, the world will never know! Trust me I know how to use a dremel. I've seen your work, very nice. I 've also made train (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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