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(...) Drive + steering just got better! I could use this with an 8 wide steering rack using the 24t bevel gear drive system! It would probably be in a 12-14 wide truck. But will the transaxle work without the motor, I mean just functioning as a (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Hi Paul, I look forward to seeing your reversible engine. I looked at the Walschaert valve gear. Wow, that is hard for me to understand, even with animation. With longer tubes, I could have easily hooked the two multiplexers to the same (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) As i was looking at the picutres, I was thinking: "Where have I seen something lioke that before?". And then I realised: (URL) end of that piece looks a lot like the teeth in those new pieces. I only have piece 41681, and not the piece that it (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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I"ve been putting together stuff for my pneumatic presentation at BrickFest. How unlike me to be preparing so far ahead. I put together two kinds of pneumatic gates, AND and OR. These gates are minor redesigns of the ones used in PneumADDic II, (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Uh.... well.... no. I didn't know they existed. That is the problem with a computer engineer designing a reversible pneumatic engine ;^) To be honest, the reversible engine was used as an example to show off the multiplexer. By (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Kevin, This is truly great! At the moment I barely understand it at all. I must build one. Reversible valve gears have interested me for some time. This is not the first reversible engine. I will soon upload photos to Brickshelf. My version is (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Very cool Kevin! Have you thought of using a sliding linkage like steam train valves? It would make it less than 100% pneumatic, but might make it somewhat less complex. ROSCO (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Just what I need! Is it a differential in the transaxle? Where can you get these and what set are they in? (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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Besides bipeds, I also love LEGO pneumatics. Doug Carlson and I have been trying to work on techniques for making single piston pneumatic engine with little or no flywheel. Doug has been having better luck than I but neither of us have acheived the (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic) !
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(...) Links in FTX require an opening < and closing >. Todd, perhaps you could turn on the same "www." and "(URL) recognition that plain text uses for FTX? Some sort of hard character return recognition would be nice too...I'm not in the habit of (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Good luck! (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Eric, that has to be the most eloquent write-up about an AFOL's love of Lego that I've read in awhile. Thanks for reminding me why I receive such enjoyment from reading your posts. -Dave (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) What I'm interested in is the size of the worm box and the ability to add your own legnth of axle to the motor. The motor is just slightly smaller than the current ones. As a Robot Builder, I have to ask myself what I can do with these. As a (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Eric Sophie" <mylegomaster@aol.com> wrote in message news:HFqJwE.105I@lugnet.com... (...) ??? I'm not sure what the excitement is about. I was given this set recently (otherwise I would not have gone near it), and I'm not terribly impressed with (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Meeee two, I ordered two that is. I'll get mine and make a walker before you! LOL! The challange is on! e (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Ahh, you know what's good! So, we'll have a new class of Clear Motor Walker soon! e (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I already ordered two sets ;^) Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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Oh Oh, please excuse my excitment. I often surf the web for breif stints if I am restless late at night. I noticed these pictures and got really excited! Thank you again for uploading these. Sorry about the post jumping. Now, let the hoarding begin! (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Had more time this morning to figure out some alternative ways to hook up the New Motor and Tran case. Here it is with deep links. New Motor to Tran Case using Znap flexible axle (vertical shift, 180 degree) (URL) Motor to Tran Case using (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) There is a groove around the axleholes or a larger hole. The inside of this larger hole has small teeth on it. Interesting but I am not sure of its use since an axle will connect to the other pieces. It could be a sleeve for another kind of (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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