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RE: Useful sets
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:46:09 GMT
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Tilman wrote:
> > Has anyone bought set 8446? It is a "Forestry Machine" with six wheels
> > (seems to be stearable in pairs) and with a huge gripper arm. Seems useful
> > for robotics - I will perhaps buy one for Christmas....
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> Other than the turntable and a rack-and-pinion steering mechanism, you don't get
> much. There are a few pneumatics parts, but no air tank. The gripper arm uses
> penumatics, and that's very difficult to adapt to the RCX.
I think you think that they think it's an 8443 Log Loader.
It's really the big ugly green thing with the silver coloured
baloon tire hubs in the Christmas Catalog. This looks like
a neat model for gears and wheels, but the gripper looks like
a sort of toggle clamp mechanism that if you look closely, actually
uses Throwbot parts! The pilot seat backs use Throwbot parts too!
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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| 8446 (the green monster) isn't very fit to be RCX controlled, (but technic pieces are useful anyhow). It's a strange but clever model in itself. A selfcontained 'pneumatic' plunge is used to push up the front cabin, triggered by a mechanical lever. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Other than the turntable and a rack-and-pinion steering mechanism, you don't get much. There are a few pneumatics parts, but no air tank. The gripper arm uses penumatics, and that's very difficult to adapt to the RCX. Tilman (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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