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(...) That's pretty neat! It will be interesting to see if there's any deterioration of the pneumatic pumps over time, especially the seals. ROSCO (added .technic) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | CSSOH Pneumatic Page?
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There are many references to the CSSOH Pneumatic Page with the URL of: (URL) haven't been able to access it at above URL, I tried a Google search but everything leads back to the above URL. Has this page been moved somewhere or is it down (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Master Builder Creatures (set 10023)?
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(...) (URL) From left to right: 1st row: Kofo-Jaga scorpion, Taku eaglet, Hoto firebug 2nd row: Ruki snapperfish, Fikou spider, Hoi turtle 3rd row: Goko-Kahu bird (aka Kewa), Husi pecking bird, Ussal crab 4th row: Kuna snake, Vako rhino, Makika (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)
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| | Master Builder Creatures (set 10023)?
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Can anyone tell me or point me to a list of what the creatures are in the Master Builder set (#10023)? (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: The latest from Epsilon's Lego Williams range!
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(...) I have blue tiles in excess, but not in the sizes I really need. I have white tiles as well, but in order to do some of the trickyness to get the sidepods 1 plate thick I can't use tiles (and the sidepods look really odd if the white is higher (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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This week the FIRST LEGO League National Championships were held in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome (home of the Atlanta Falcons). So since the event was in my backyard I figured it would be fun to see what the event was all about. I got a position as a (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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| | Re: SSClagorpion
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(...) I can see the good sense in putting the hip switches on their own sets of levers, as your pics show. That way, the force required for them and for the legs is independent, so there's no extra load on the switches. I am used to mounting the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Funny! My presentation at Brickest (classic?) was named Pneumatic Magic. When I started on quad242 I thought the cool thing was going to be the ability to make it modify its behavior to go backwards and turn, but the hardest part was the "no (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: The latest from Epsilon's Lego Williams range!
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(...) ... (...) You need to use slopes and tiles more, to smooth out the surface. Don't you have some blue and white slopes and tiles? Cheers, (URL) Sci-Fi LEGO> (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: SSClagorpion
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(...) That makes sense, but you may want to take a look at the video of Kevin's walkers: (URL) you see, at the end of each stride, all four legs are at the bottom of their travel. So while it is true that half the legs will have to support all the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | The latest from Epsilon's Lego Williams range!
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Hello all! Not an aussie icon, but in the spirit of breathing some life into loc.au: (URL) the new williams fw26 (this is the 2004 williams for those who don't follow f1 all that much) I have finally developed the perfect MUCUS technique :) there (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: SSClagorpion
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(...) A few things spring to mind about this: 1. I usually run robots from a car tyre air compressor at 25PSI. This gives good performance with 1-2 large cylinders moving at a time. Using 6 large pump cylinders as the air source, performance is half (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well Steve, it might and it might not. Given 18 bits of state (two bits/pistons per leg plus two extra), we could have a total of 256K possible combinations of leg positions. We only want about about 10 of them. If we start out the pistons in (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yes, I'd rather see a solid, strong, slow robot over a fast robot that succeeds in tearing itself apart. :) (...) That's the throw of the switches, right? Not the throw of the cylinders on the legs. So the legs will "move" at the same speed, (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) So using #1 axle connectors as the linkage, we get a reduced piston expansion, down to 86% of maximum. Using technic axle joiner perpendicular, we can reduce the range to 70% of maximum. I can't (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 6293 rc receiver Auxiliary output possible?
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thanks for checking Mark! that is more help than i expected. too bad it's not going to work. guess i'm going to have to buy another receiver from bricklink if i really want the extra output. bob (...) Bob Kojima ko@fial.com Fial Incorporated Telecom (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thinking about this more....... One of the reasons that makes this slow is the inherent piston friction which combined with pressure defines the rate of expansion and contraction. So the rate is not very negotiable. But using rate * time = (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) <snip> (...) Well, I know of situations where LEGO has asked some people to recreate their MOCs for them. You know you have arrived if that happens. (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) ... (...) With twice the pistons, the pressure is not as great, but the volume of air would be doubled, right? Using logic, not physics, I think once the pressure is built up (to 13 psi) the compressor may have to do less work to keep it (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: SSClagorpion
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(...) Mark Riley was nice enought to point out the errors in my math. The area of the piston care is pi * r^2 = 0.2 Four times that is 0.8. So the minimal pressure needed is 10 pounds / 0.8 square inches or, 12.5 pounds per square inch. Still well (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.technic)
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