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(...) Cool, man! Keep working on it. I believe that Erin Lassley is the pioneer of this class of engines. (URL) btw, anything that runs on air power, even if blown by a human being, is pneumatic (without the s)! (23 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Engines of Yesteryear
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"c s soh" <cssoh@singnet.com.sg> skrev i meddelandet news:3D64C7B8.3FD533....com.sg... (...) well, though... (URL) Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Building set 8040 with 5x9 plates ????
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(...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Building set 8040 with 5x9 plates ????
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I don't know if this has been published before. Just a bit off-topic, non Technic fun.... Check out page 13 of the 8040 instructions; you have to build a shovel with the dimension 4x16 studs. Lego suggests you pick out of the box: 2 plates, each 5x9 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8475
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I'm pretty not happy with the steering centering myself. I can't get mine to center no matter what I do. Oh well, I only bought the set for the motors anyway. -Rob hmm...New motor...Rail Racer 2003...hmmm "Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8475
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(...) I just want to add that I've only seen two of these, and they both had a minute problem with centering the steering. A full proportional system has a trim setting on the transmitter, since the signal is constantly sent all the time the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Engines of Yesteryear
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Excellent presentation! (23 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi pneumatic fans, Thanks to a couple of kind folks, I've been able to trace the art of building pneumatic "steam"-engines to the early days when the single acting cylinders were introduced by LEGO. Here is a page to pay tribute to these pioneer (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New Parts
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(...) Pardon the intrusion on this dead thread, but... I have a small reference image about this kind of element here: (URL) Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: The Big Lift
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(...) Depends on construction technique. For my small mobile crane the construction I used meant the boom was significantly weaker than normal (bending-wise), and in fact when it failed, even though I was watching closely, it went so fast I was (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Great Crane! I am so jealous of the amount of bricks and plates you guys have. (...) That's what I keep finding. The hardest part of the crane to get strong enough tends to be the base/outriggers/crawler frames. The boom is easily strong enough. You (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A better device for tank treads than the adder / subtractor
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Dean, the clutch idea works perfectly! I make a simple drive base like the one in your post using the clutch gear, added a couple of motors, tested it using a couple of dual-switch battery boxes, then tested it with an RCX and a remote. It drives (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: The Big Lift
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(...) You have to look very closely at the crane, and pay careful attention to it as the lift progresses. I first take the slack out of the lifting lines, and then reel in the line in short bursts. Slowly, but gently, the object will begin to lift. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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TJ, How do you tell when the crane is about to fail? I can only imagine how heart-breaking it would be for it to actually fail and break the crane or to break pieces. Roy (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Bionicle Toa Nuva at TRU
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Just a heads up for Bionicle fans. This past Thursday, I found all 6 Toa Nuva for sale at my local TRU (Charlotte, NC). Happy hunting. Ken (23 years ago, 17-Aug-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: MASSIVE Technic collection for sale
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(...) Arguably the original posting should probably have been posted to lugnet.buy-sell-trade instead of being multiple posted (instead of cross posted, see the FAQ on why one is bad and the other good) to lugnet.general and lugnet.technic Please (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Dan, First of all are you absolutly sure you want to sell? I would bet that you, like me have been purchasing legos for our collections since adolecence. Secondly, would you except a payment plan with the goods mailed out after final payment? As for (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I'll take that one! How much are you asking? =D Actually, what are your prices? I might be interested in a few things even though you have no boxes. (23 years ago, 17-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A better device for tank treads than the adder / subtractor
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Hello Fredrik, (...) I was going to use two mechanically-linked motors for the forward/back motion and a third motor for the turning motion in combonation with the adder subtractor. Fitting the second forward / reverse motor in was going to be a (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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Thanks Dean for the great ideas and for posting links. Sounds like I should buy the Ferrari brothers book. I'll try the clutch idea first, it seems to be the solution I'm looking for and it is relatively simple, I do have a couple clutch gears but I (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A better device for tank treads than the adder / subtractor
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Beleive me, I have exampined the Lugnet technic gears site and been to all the links. I've also done other searches both on tank creations and on RCX bases using treads. I've recently bought 4 packs of tread links to make a large crawler base for my (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | MASSIVE Technic collection for sale
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Hi, I will be selling all my Legos (which are 95% Technic) most likely via Ebay or other auction site. I wanted to see if there was anybody in the Lugnet community that would be interested in buying them before I did. The sets I have are: SET# (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pneumatic Tubing Replacement
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(...) Greg, John Barnes knows of some non-Lego tubing that works very well. It's smaller in diameter, black in color, and makes a really tight fit with Lego pneumatics. Try emailing him and asking what it was (pinkmice@borg.com). Also, Tom's Technic (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | The Big Lift
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I've broken my old crane record with a 48 pound (21.8 kg) lift with my marine pedestal crane: (URL) still have not put together a decent webpage for the crane. I must take better quality pictures of it first. If it would only stop raining here in (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic) !
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Does anyone know what type of tubing TLC uses for their pneumatics? Any suggestions on a good replacement for it? Thanks for the info, Greg (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A better device for tank treads than the adder / subtractor
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(...) Do you want both motors to contribute to the power when driving straight? I.e., is your worry that one motor is idle, and hence does not contribute to the motion? Is that why you want a different arrangement? As I see it, the main advantage (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I think most of your problems would be solved by installing a clutch that links the left and right drive axles. It would be somewhat like the limited slip differential in the Ferrari brothers book. I perfer using the clutch gear instead of (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: A better device for tank treads than the adder / subtractor
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(...) Well, an adder/subtractor (a/s) *does* turn both treads evenly, but only with one motor driving. (...) An a/s does this when the drive motor is stopped and *the other* motor turns. (...) Controlled by the speed / direction of "turning" motor. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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I have a challange for those realy good at using differentials and gears: The adder / subtractor device is not the ideal device for use in tank treads. An ideal device would drive straight forward and back with both motors running. It would also be (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Decals/Stickers for 8880 ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
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(...) Hi, you can find a scan of the 8880 stickers at Brick Builder's site: (URL) link: (URL) that helps! Alex (23 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Decals/Stickers for 8880 ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
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Hi all, I got my supercar 8880 many many years ago when I was about 5. (of course I never even built it until I was 13, then realizing what an amazingly engineered model it was) I have the box, instructions and all the pieces, but somewhere along (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: "Technic Hall of Fame Nominees" poll
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I don't know, the <set:8460 8460 Crane>, <set:8862 8862 Backhoe Grader> and <set:8860 8860 Auto Chassis> sets are owned by the same number of people [1] and are doing very well. I also thought it was a great set - a lot of functions in a very tight (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: "Technic Hall of Fame Nominees" poll
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(...) ROSCO (23 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Best Technic set poll
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Yeah, it's an interesting set, it's the only Technic set without any gears (AFAIK) and the workings of the mechanism are hard to understand and far from the standard things we got used to see in other sets. On the minus side, the opening function (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Best Technic set poll
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What do you mean, not meant to be rolled onto hard surfaces? I only got it to work on a hard floor. It never opened on a carpet... Duq Oh, by the way, keep it on the shortlist, I do think it's a classic. "Adrian Egli" <aegli@san.rr.com> wrote in (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8475
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Wow, thanks for the pics. I am absolutely _shocked_ at how much smaller the 8475 rims and wheels are. I thought they were maybe 2/3 to 3/4 the size of the 8466/8458 equivalents. I was totally fooled -- they are barely half the size. Impressive that (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8475
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(...) I put some info here a while back; (URL) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8475
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Many thanks to John Morgan for putting the pictures up. My question (to John Heins or anyone who can answer) is based on looking at those images. "John Heins" <Johnmhiii@aol.com> wrote in message news:H0rK02.99z@lugnet.com... (...) points (...) Has (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.technic, John Morgan writes: sorry about that ... didnt know how to create direct links to the images... (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8475
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(...) Greetings, Hope these pictures help clear up some questions. First time for me using the camera so they aren't as clear as I would like them but I thought you would want to see the new parts : ) Lots of promise with these parts and I want to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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