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(...) Sorry Kevin, I moved things around in my Brickshelf galleries in preparation to putting the instructions on the BI portal. The new locations (after moderation) are: Bird : (URL) : (URL) : (URL) hope people have as much fun building them as I (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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Dean, I'm very interested in looking at your biped bird, but the links don't work. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yep, but 852 only has collective control, and relies on gravity! Ben's has limited cyclic control (nose up/down), and no collective, but that's just a limitation imposed by the original 8444 model - full collective and cyclic could be done (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The rotor design in that set isn't quite right either, though its closer to real life. In the 852, the control stick changes the pitch of the rotor blades, but the pitch angle stays the same as the blades spin around the hub. In a real (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It has already been made by Lego in 1977, 852 Reconnoitre Helicopter. Wonder why they did not do that later on also? /Pehter (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) move forwards backwards or sideways. If you tilt the rotor (as is done in these sets) the only thing that happens is that the fusalage of the helecoptor tilts. In a real helecoptor the blades's pitch varies as it rotates around the hub. The (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) If I want to keep all the features (4wd, gearbox, suspension), which I do, the chassis can't be very much lighter than it is now. Besides, that's just not the direction I want to go. Thing is, I really want to use a better motor. The lego (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Thanks. I wish I had the 851/952 tractor to pull, would have been more right in style. The 8859 has to much of an modern tractor to look right. /Pehter (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.se)
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"Gillish" <gillish@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message news:HA920E.E7y@lugnet.com... The lego motor is thinking of going on a strike or even dying (...) heavily. (...) I think it is time to consider a lighter chassis. Your project is getting rather (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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Has anyone made a centrifugal clutch from Lego bricks? Searching Google, lugnet news, and brickshelf didn't turn up anything. I found a Meccano one here: (URL) motorizing a monorail switch (which was surprisingly easy), but I'd like to disengage the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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With the sun getting ever stronger as the season progresses, the solar panel now gives close to 9 watts at 2 in the afternoon, and I suspect this will go even higher... The lego motor is thinking of going on a strike or even dying though...It (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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I recently built a R904 wheeled excavator. Yes, it's a small one if you put it net to the R974 or Evert's R954. The reason it built that one is because I wanted a small machine to load it on the drawbar trailer behind the 6x6 man. (URL) haven't put (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Cool! So when will we see outside photos of yours? I suppose it's still some snow even in Motala? Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) If you don't put a motor in it it would be the car that's driving the engine thus the amount of bricks does not matter. This question can't be answered 'cause all the facts were not given, i.e. what type of rubber band, what pulleys, what (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Stephane, That is similar to the rotor in (URL) - and no, it is not how real rotors generally work. Here's another page with a lot of great info about how helicopters work: (URL) could probably model a more realistic swash plate with those (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Modelteam and Technic. It's refreshing to see something like this, it reminds me of classic sets of long ago. -TJ www.texbrick.com (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.se)
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Hi all, If any of you have seen the 8856's rotor, the whole thing is tilted by use of the flex system. But from what I've read from the net (and a coworker who claims to know about real helicopters), it doesn't work that way at all. Since english is (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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Hey Look at this picture: (URL) then this: (URL) last picture is just an proto type! Look at alle the wrong colors, the "old style" off valves, the back grab is "naked" there are missing some "styling"... There is missing one pneumatic pumps, and it (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Perhaps not right now. (...) This model has no tilting bucket: (URL) the arm can be switched, I saw some pictures with a snowbucket attached to an arm. (URL) pictures 400k) /Pehter (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic)
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