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"Thomas Johnson" <aklego@mac.com> wrote in message news:HE4DMA.1Eqy@lugnet.com... (...) cause i said something without any knowledge about the current state of the orrery i missed that the moon's orbit's not coaxial with the earth's one but as i (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Vertical lift spans (was: Re: drawbridge
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(...) OK, this is similar, but first take a walk down to the local auto repair shop and see if you can look at a 'cats cradle' type auto hoist. Here is my description. It involves one string to lift one end of the span and another string, which is (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: drawbridge
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(...) I used a single motor, with all cables being passed above the top of the span to get to the far side (4 cables). One trick that I would do if I was building another one is to make the cable drums easier to adjust to one another, since they (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New 2003 Technic sets on S@H
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(...) They do indeed have new pieces (to almost everyone). During my frenzied visit to the Toy Fair showroom, I spotted what I believed to be a new Technic piece (though I later found out that it's available in at least one Spybotics set). It's a (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Vertical lift spans (was: Re: drawbridge
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Not sure where to chime in, so I'll jump in here. Regarding the lifting of vertical lift spans: I've built many of these over the years and my latest version (yet to be published on the internet) takes advantage of an engineering survey done on one (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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