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Re: The LEGO Level
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Date: 
Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:45:43 GMT
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Jerry,
This level is a great piece of LEGO engineering, and your website
is full of equally impressive projects.

I also attempted to build a self-leveling platform for my model
of the Kennedy Space Center Crawler/Transporter:

http://members.cox.net/markhaye/ksc_ct.html

One advantage of my solution is that it is entirely LEGO
(well, some of us consider that an advantage).
But, your solution is vastly more compact and probably
quite a bit more accurate.  Well done.

Mark Haye



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