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(...) Yep, that is why pistons push better than they pull. (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> wrote in message news:IL9wsG.1y1G@lugnet.com... (...) I have a fair amount of older Technic, including steering parts, but not the most recent stuff. (...) it was the first thing I thought of, so I built it (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Is it because the extension side of the piston face has a greater surface area than the retraction side? The connection between the piston face and the piston rod accounting for the difference. Steve (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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While at Brickfest I had the chance to meet Dave Schilling again. Dave is a very knowlegable technic/robotics builder. I also got the pleasure to meet his brother Phil. What a couple of nice guys. Dave showed me a pneumatic parlor trick that those (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(and whit's of Nanthan's MOC's whare in the race?....) Thanks for asking! I had 9 creations there- all as one MOC. I don't know if the telehandler was the closest vote or everthing together, but the telehandler got the most interest. I discovered (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) While at Brickfest, Nathan shared his knowledge of radial engines with me. My future radial designs will have an odd number of evenly spaced pistons/pumps. I knew that one critical issue was that the piston shaft needs to point at the axle of (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Leg lift and leg drop are synchronized, but leg sweep was not. I did not have time to rebuild the body to provide identical leg sweep. Since this stopped the legs from completing their stride, I did not synchronize leg sweep. As Brickfest went (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) As I see this, it depends on what generation of "steering gear" elements you have. There are a number of different variants. You may even _not_ have some specialized steering elements. This will not make your task impossible, but a tad more (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi all I want to build a simple steerable car chassis to help my daughter with her driving lessons :-) (Particularly with visualising what happens to the wheels when backing up, which is being a bit of a challenge). Can someone point me to (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) did you synchronise the leg swap of you're SSC1?? and did you alredy adjust the leg sturcture or the body so it make's more agressife steps?.... do you have a video or some more pictures from your SSClagorpion1? oke lots of questions but i (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) SSClagorpion1 just barely won Best technic MOC, edging out one of Nathan's fabulous MOCs. PhD2, my pneumatic hexapod won Best Intruiging MOC. John Barnes says the voting was extremely close here too. Brickfest 2005 was fabuluous! This was my (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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NWBrickCon 2005 is coming up on October 7--9 in Seattle. Registration is possible at (URL) September 9. If you plan to display MOCs or other displays, or have any related questions, please contact the appropriate coordinator (preferably by October (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.western) !!
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congratulations kevin :) great job!!! whit what creation did you won the best technic MOC and the most intriguing MOC??? (...) pneumatic master.....truth, truth and nothing but the truth!!! (...) sigurd (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I was and still am very skeptical of the Bionicle stuff. I love the technic pieces, but I just keep finding that so many of the newer sets have pieces that are very limited in use. My first purchase of a bionicle set was because I was in (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)
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Congratulations to Kevin Clague who won best technic MOC and most intriguing MOC!!!! He got two Technic awards and got a free Technic crane. Mr Christyatsen (who was there for the first time) gave him the new title of Pnuematic master! Way to go (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Paul, THanks for the feedback on the compressor. Yes. There are actually two independent compressors that share the same structure. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 14-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Another fantastic model, from the workshop of yours. I have just read the description, really detailed model. I specially like the opening doors.. :D Please keep on creating amazing creations like this. Best regards from Denmark, Anders (...) (19 years ago, 13-Aug-05, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) <Snip> (...) Posting this to .technic too, for the last bit (19 years ago, 13-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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Has anyone in the Bionicle community found the origin of Bionicle's name? Cause I found this name of a hill in New-Zealand,a name written in Maori: Taumatawhakatangihan...itanatahu. Has highlighted by the bold text, ther's is a bionicle name in that (...) (19 years ago, 13-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)
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Hi Kevin, Your compressor is very nice. I am fascinated by your crank. I hope I am seeing it right. It seems a very clever way of getting the amount of travel right and allowing the use of those pulleys with cross holes to connect all the piston (...) (19 years ago, 13-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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