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Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:01:36 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> wrote:

> I'd love to start a GBC activity here in Potsdam,
> but .... we need a reliable source of bulk balls.

   Before Steve gave me some balls (oh, the straight lines...), I acquired
enough to run a few modules of my own from various Bricklink purchases. You
could do a GBC by simply mandating that everybody who wants to add to a GBC
brings there own supply of balls, but I think this project could tap out
Bricklink. But I agree, it would be nice if at least a few other folks could
acquire a large lot of soccer balls in other geographic regions.

> we really need Lego to sell bulk balls.

   There is, I've heard tell, some PaB (not in the States, but UK IMS) that had
soccer balls for bulk sale. I know you can get a lot of soccer balls in a PaB
cup (a small cup here in the States holds about 180 - I don't have enough (yet!)
to tell how many a large PaB cup holds, but it looks to be around 300).

--
Brian Davis



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  Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
 
(...) Well, I do have a very large suppily, and despite sending out hundreds of soccer balls, I've just scratched the surface. I have a whole stack of requests, just waiting to be boxed and shipped. I just need to get to the post office during work (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
 
Steve Hassenplug writes: > ho hum. another day, another Great Ball Contraption. Cool. I'd love to start a GBC activity here in Potsdam, but .... we need a reliable source of bulk balls. It's nice of you to mail them out to people, but we really need (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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