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Re: Care and feeding of technic gear motors
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:02:25 GMT
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Original-From:
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Tilman Sporkert <tilman@activesw.com%nospam%>
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Jammed motors out of the box is a common problem with the geared Technic
motors.. That's not limited to Znap sets at all. A phone call to Lego
customer service usually takes care of that problem quickly. Alternatively,
you can say, what the heck, and buy another Znap set with a motor for $9.95
at Toys'R'Us.
I have a failure rate of about 1 in 15. It would barely move when run from a
battery pack.Others have reported that there motors didn't move at all. This
is a non-fixable condition.
Tilman
----- Original Message -----
> I have read a number of reports of people having problems
> with the technic gear motor. In particular, with them jamming.
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> I have an embarrassingly large number of these motors and I
> had never observed a problem. However,
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> I have noted that some of the motors coming from the heavily
> discounted Znap sets and 3038 sets will not turn when they are
> first unpacked. I think that there is a problem with the motors
> sitting in the same position for a long period on warehouse shelves.
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> I have not broken a motor yet, but any that appear in this state can
> be freed by running from the battery pack for a few minutes.
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| I have read a number of reports of people having problems with the technic gear motor. In particular, with them jamming. I have an embarrassingly large number of these motors and I had never observed a problem. However, I have noted that some of the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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