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(...) I don't usually see the text "PRELIMINARY DESIGN" on LEGO publications which are intended for the public. Fredrik (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) --snip-- good idea,I have a lot of hinge plates in my depot. So I will give a try. -------- (...) -- snip -- Yes the 4x plates are really "stressed" turning around the wheels. I think the combination of both, smaller plates and re-arangeing (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Perhaps switching to 2x plates instead of 4x for the tread surfaces would help - this would help to smooth the curve around the wheels, at the cost of almost doubling the number of hinges you would need to add. Otherwise, love this MOC. Great (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic)
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(...) You might find that spreading the hinge plates wider on the tread shoes will help. Having them near the centre increases the "twisting" effect if there are forces near the edge of the shoes. Also, having 3 per shoe instead of 2 may help - mine (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Thank you for your feedback and for adding my post to .technic. Yes it's true, moving is pretty jerky and because of the huge overall weight the treads will broke up .relatively often. Maybe I'll think about another kind of treads but I'll (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I've added .technic to the groups cos I think they'll like it over there too! Can't wait to see the finished robot - I remember Short Circuit from when I was a kid. One question I have, how smoothly does it move on those treads? I found my (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic)
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For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, here is where I place the old Lego ads I find when I dig through all my old kids' cartoons magazines. Hope you like them. (URL) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, lugnet.castle)
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(...) ... (...) But wait, there's more... First, a friend (another Bryan) came over with his module, and then the next day, we had a club meeting, where our whole LEGO club had modules. After running Bryan's for a bit, I considered adding a "Maximum (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.brickfest) !
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| | Re: Why Technic Pin 1/2 (part #4274) blue ?
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In lugnet.color, Steve Dunn wrote: <snip> (...) I'm with you on that Steve: the new Technic (and other theme) instructions are getting very difficult to differentiate the color of parts, namely, black, new dark grey, and sometimes new light grey. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I completely agree with Jennifer's statement, we like the colours when it suits us, but not when it doesn't. Unlike bley, I think this is a problem that only creeps slowly into the minds of technic builders as we can slowly deplete our stocks (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.parts, lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Why Technic Pin 1/2 (part #4274) blue ?
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"Steve Dunn" <s%te#ven.j&.du?nn*@...tr$a.c?om> wrote in message news:IAJKnu.oHo@lugnet.com... (...) I have some of these in white... very handy too. (...) peices (...) obvious. Agreed, I like the variety of colour that this has introduced, but do (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.parts, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Ferrari
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(...) I was more like talking about a formula one car, ofcourse all racing cars should have a gearbox. 6 speed + reverse if possible... (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: SSClagorpion - Another creature - Greene Scorp
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(...) <snip> (...) Yeah, Im looing to isolate each movement completely and have it so the body doesn't have a grav well. I'm not 100% on the orderit may be that instead of AD going to AF, I do AD, -> BU -> AF -> BR -> BD -> AU -> BF -> AR -> AD (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: SSClagorpion - Another creature - Greene Scorp
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(...) If you use a regular hexagon, the radial compressor would look awesome mounted on its side in the centre. ROSCO (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Awesome. (...) Are the down legs coming up at the same time as the up legs are coming down? Sclagorpion will have all 8 legs down, then pick four of them up, shift, and put them back down before lifting the other four. This way the body does (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Why Technic Pin 1/2 (part #4274) blue ?
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half pins blue frictionless axle pins tan axle pins with friction blue odd length axles grey even length axles black etc pieces so far produced in only one colour (excluding the grey varient); 3/4 pins axels 3 long with stud 16 tooth gear with (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.parts, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: SSClagorpion - Another creature - Greene Scorp
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In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Almost as compact as my radial.. which I've developed /developing 3 and 6 cylinder versions as well.. the 3cyl radial is 12x13x4 studs and can easily be run with any motor (even the micro), but (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) There does not seem to be any guaranteed synchronization between the up down mechanism and the forward back. Slow pistons might not hit the ground before the front back transistions start. (...) That is nice and tidy. (...) Yes, I have a (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Ferrari
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Granted I agree that a Lego Technic race car would be difficult to build with a transmission, but let's not forget the supercar 8880. It had instructions for a pretty neat race car (which had, I might add, a two speed tranny). So I think lego would (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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Ross- You seem to have a lot of truck tires and wheels (the end gearings you used for your big Demag crawler crane's tracks). Have you ever considered building a large scale mobile crane model with them? I am thinking maybe something like the huge (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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