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In what is the most pro-active customer support I have ever experienced, Paul Ellams contacted me and suggested I might beta a newer revision of his Robotics Mover software for the Palm platform. He was suprised that my range using a Handspring was (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | RE: Lubricating technic turntables
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Graphite could work, and should be safe. I've been using it for model train couplers, which are made from Delrin. It comes in a little tube, and you sort of "puff" it on. Kadee is the manufacturer, and it should be available in the model train (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lubricating technic turntables
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(...) Why not? Graphite's carbon rings are most definitely not going to harm ABS plastic. Is it a purism thing? (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Oil may work well on turntables, but don't use them for pneumatics. I oiled them with some kind of oil (I can't remember), and now they stick and stutter when you pull them. They seem to operate fine now, but not if they get much worse. I would not (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: List software?
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I think that people think it is a pain in the a$$, as there has been a post on this before, but it has been this way for a long time, and people are used to having to delete senders. I am not saying that I like to do this (I don't), but that people (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lubricating technic turntables
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(...) Why would one "never know"? This is chemistry, not astrology. Graphene sheets (the molecular unit of graphite) are quite stable and inert. Most hydrocarbon oils should also be fine for turntables and other parts with all-ABS construction (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC for Palm
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Well, I just got some bad news from Dave 'NQC' Baum. Apparently he's a Palm developer, and he won't touch the project, because of architectural limitations in the Palm OS. Apparently NQC needs a lot more dynamically- allocated memory than the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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It's not so much the "conical" gear that takes the backlash out of the setup that Bob Fay provided links to, but the ability to use the technic axles as torsion springs and keep the gear teeth in the train loaded at all times. That particular gear (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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(...) What set(s) include this "conical" gear? (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: NQC for Palm
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(...) I just did some measurements of heap usage for NQC, and it isn't quite as bad as I feared. Compiling a trivial program without including the standard API uses about 11K. If you include the standard API, this grows to about 64K. For a modest (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC for Palm
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(...) Of course on my Agenda Palmtop - it took little more than typing 'make' to port it. <smug grin> (...) So the Palm is big-endian? I didn't know that. Won't that also cause problems for NQC porting...does NQC run on any other big-endian (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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The CD-Rom does not explaiin how to use this piece, but in an earlier post I wrote: Ok, this is called a "Slip Gear" or "Torque Gear" It is used to prevent over rotation by means of an internal clutch, the 2.5 - 5.0 NCM I belive means the range of (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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(...) Far as I can tell, these are the gears used in the gearboxes in 8880, 8448, 8480, and prob'ly others. ROSCO (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Lubricating technic turntables
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You got me pegged, it's a purism thing, I pride myself on never cutting or altering pieces, glueing or lubricating. Just work those pieces and they'll loosen up! Get'em... GRRRRR....Eric (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's okay, I'm a purist too. I once spent several frustrating hours completely redesigning the drivetrain on one of my robots so I wouldn't have to trim down four 8L cross axles to 7L. However, when you consider lubricating a turntable (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Good point, well taken, I'm glad at least 5L axle was produced! (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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(...) (I think we established that this is Newton centimeters - a force of between two and a half and five Newtons applied at a distance of one centimeter will cause the gear to slip...or half that at 2cm, a third at 3cm and so on). (...) That's (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hmm interesting. I only have one clutch gear (the one that came with RIS 1.5), and it is too *loose* to really be at all functional. I've also read that the clutch force tends to drop in them the more they are used. (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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Oh , right , Newtons , I was saying Nano centameters! thanks....I guess you need a fair amount of gearing and distance to use these gears effectivly along with opposing resistance, I love the way it works in the hand I developed, infact in included (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I wish Lego made an "Anti-Backlash Gear"
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Yes they do lose a little, I guess we always knew that would be the case, I hate to see you not use the gear if it's to loose, reurn it for a new one if you decide somthing really needs it. Also I consider this gear a "back-up" in preventing (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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