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I'm currently working on a project that needs a lot of Technic Wedge Belt Wheels (4185) that can freely spin. I realize that modifying Lego parts is a sin. But other people such as TJ Avery have done this modification. So i thought that it would be (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Conversion
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Steven lane's utterance expressed in news:HoF1K6.1zwn@lugnet.com: (...) Just as a sidenote: (URL) the unit conversion is handy ;) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New colors and other info
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(...) These are excellent examples of how to use the studless beams, full-width liftarms, or whatever you want to call them. I use this type of connection (studs-in-holes) quite often, and I'm pleased with the results. I hate to dig up a sore (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New colors and other info
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"Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:HoM9KJ.1sHp@lugnet.com... (...) this makes liftarms so much valuable pixel (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New colors and other info
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(...) Or five long pins with friction and two 1x5 liftarms straight. Kevin (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: New colors and other info
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(...) Well, you could do something like this: (URL) or build a truss like so: (URL) or: (URL) Probably not quite as strong as the technic bricks, though. Cheers, Mark FUT lugnet.technic (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Pictures of 'Bionicle-Castle' sets, from UK club magazine
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Ugh. However... to me these look like an extension of the Galidor line, not the Bioncle line as rumored. Knowing that the larger Lego corporate entity (not Lego Direct) takes a long time to develop a product line...perhaps development and (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pictures of 'Bionicle-Castle' sets, from UK club magazine
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(...) My thoughts exactly (...) Cool pic, just wanted to add the 'Before' picture (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: US S@H Specials, Nov 19 - 25, 2003
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(...) xpost to .technic (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pictures of 'Bionicle-Castle' sets, from UK club magazine
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(...) Huw, thanks for the scan. My first thought is: How can these be called "castle"? Yea, I realize they're supposed to be some sort of knight, but where's the actual "castle"? I'd suggest calling them "Bionicle Knights", since in order to build (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pictures of 'Bionicle-Castle' sets, from UK club magazine
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Woohoo! That so much rocks! That kicks ass like nothing before! I'm totally enthralled by this GREAT GREATER GREATEST release of all times (and I've experienced a lot of times, including the boring 80ies and early 90ies)! Woohoo! and woohoo again! I (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) It wants to... fly! (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yeah, Bionicle Goes Medieval might've actually been pretty cool, but these are freaking Galidor Redux. Didn't they learn their lesson the first time? *shakes head* Though looking at those shields, they might make interesting wings for a space (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Ack. I was prepared to see Bionicle go medieval, but it's the Galidor figure again. (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pictures of 'Bionicle-Castle' sets, from UK club magazine
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(...) I was immediately reminded of (URL) there's no wolf. . .) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pictures of 'Bionicle-Castle' sets, from UK club magazine
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(...) Color me disgruntled, but this looks curiously like a Megabloks Mecha/Bot/Thing experiment gone awry. That or a Galidor meets Lego Brick experiment. Either way, here's hoping there's some salvageable merit to this little foray. Strange, this (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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| | Pictures of 'Bionicle-Castle' sets, from UK club magazine
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Sorry for the poor scan, I did it from work. I'll do a better one later. (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8475 troubles
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(...) I had similar problems, and guessed it was a current limit problem (I'm an electrical engineer). I went out and bought rechargable nickel metal hydride batteries because they are rechargable and they provide more current. This helped a lot. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Rumored Castle sets now a nightmare.
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(...) Remember though that TLC generally considers that Harry Potter IS Castle right now. So, aside from Lego Direct stuff (like the Guarded Inn, Blacksmiths Shop and Black Falcons Fortress), dont expect to see regular castle on the shelves (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Rumored Castle sets now a nightmare.
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(...) <snip> Good, then Todd can move lugnet.technic.bionicle to lugnet.castle.bionicle! j/k, this is bad news IMHO. (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic)
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