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    Biggest lego wheel? —Mike Reddy
   What is the biggest lego technic wheel currently available? I have some students building a stair climber and they want to use BIG wheels in their design. (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Biggest lego wheel? —Jonathan Wilson
     If you are happy for "baloon" wheels, try the sheels from the 8466 4x4 off-roader, they are pretty big. Or you could try wheels from the Silver Champion/Williams F1 (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Biggest lego wheel? —Philippe Hurbain
     (...) Not really easy to use... but by far the biggest: Hailfire droid wheel ( (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Biggest lego wheel? —Manfred Moolhuysen
     (...) I think we can be a little more specific here: Besides the Hailfire droid wheel Philippe Hurbain mentioned in his post, here are 3 more Peeron references to large wheels. If you follow the links, you will also see a list of what sets each one (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Biggest lego wheel? —Ronald Vallenduuk
      "Mike Reddy" <mreddy@glam.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Hnz8uz.1yxp@lugnet.com... (...) students (...) The hailfire droid wheel is the biggest, but impossible to use. After that the balloon tyres from 8466/8457 are the largest. ((URL) and goes on (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Biggest lego wheel? —chris
   if the goal is to climb stairs, i remember seeing some designs that manage to function like larger wheels than they are. i can't find the links, maybe someone remembers where. was it lobster bot or something like that ? it used canterlever arms or (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Biggest lego wheel? —Brian B. Alano
     (...) You're talking about a tri-star wheel. Here's but one thread on the topic: (URL) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Biggest lego wheel? —Dan Lauber
   Possibly you mean this site? (URL) lego wheels. Dan Lauber "chris" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:01ba01c3a5b6$bc...hal9000... (...) maybe (...) their (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Biggest lego wheel? —Mike Reddy
   (...) Found that thanks. I showed it to some of the students, who you may or may not know were tasked with building a Lego Mindstorms robot to travers a stepped bridge in Pontypridd, South Wales. The brige is several hundred years old, has a rough (...) (21 years ago, 31-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Stanley garage door control units —Mark H. Near
   Anybody need 2 Stanley garage door opener sending units? They have a dip switch bank and one button, and run on a single 9 volt battery. Very old technology. I want to recycle as opposed to throwing them away. The receiver was discarded before I (...) (21 years ago, 31-Dec-03, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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