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Subject: 
Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:08:02 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Ed McGlynn wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, John Barnes wrote:
> > In lugnet.robotics, David Koudys wrote:
> > > I read that, I just decided to be a little more apparent, as in 'Gee Steve, send
> > > me some balls!' ;)
> > > 
> > > I have a grande total of, wait for it... 1 soccer ball, and it came with my
> > > Brickfest '04 set.
> > > 
> > > At your convenience, of course :)
> > 
> > 
> > Or someone who owns a soccer ball could measure it and publish the size.
> > 
> > Most craft stores sell a selection of little wooden balls. It might be cheaper
> > to buy a few about the right size rather than paying to mail genuine Lego ones?
> > Of course, I'm not a purist :) Would a wooden ball start to infect the rest of
> > the contraption's Lego parts I wonder .....
> > 
> > "Oh no! Look! A knot hole is forming in that Technic beam over there!!!"
> > 
> > JB
> 
> Sure enough, that'll happen.  What about the sawdust envy that LEGO soccer balls
> will inevitably suffer from?
> 
> Ed

This post will be overkill I am sure but this Bricklink store sells has 42
soccer balls $.10 US a piece

<http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=UBL>



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  Re: The Great Ball Contraption
 
(...) Sure enough, that'll happen. What about the sawdust envy that LEGO soccer balls will inevitably suffer from? Ed (22 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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