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Re: New AFOL
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:09:51 GMT
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"Benton Jackson" <goatrider@spambegone.goatrider.com> writes:
Well, as soon as I get a load of #6 axle connectors I'm building a large
Killough platform with the big spherical wheels. Then I can see how a
Killough platform works without the square-wheel effect my current one has.

Maybe you can find 3 of the "Soccer Bus" sets which come with a soccer
ball, and make a *really* large Killough platform! :-)

Welcome to LUGNET, BTW...

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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  Re: New AFOL
 
I just saw a few of those at Wal-mart the other day. It would be a way to introduce a soccer ball into a creation while maintaining the pure-lego concept <grin>. But a Killough platform needs 6 wheels, and they aren't actually spherical- they are (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: New AFOL
 
Well, as soon as I get a load of #6 axle connectors I'm building a large Killough platform with the big spherical wheels. Then I can see how a Killough platform works without the square-wheel effect my current one has. In the meantime, I just got 5 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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