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(...) I'm glad to hear you're writting pneumatic articles for Brick Journal. I plan on doing some articles for Brick Journal too. (...) I was thinking that this parlor trick might be used to create a very slow pneumatic delay (presuming it has (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Kevin I recommend you to go to Peeron Instruction Library ((URL)) and check models 8207, 8216, 8225, 8808 and 8816. These are some simple models you can build, and there are a lot more models over there that you can also use. Hope this (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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"Kevin Wilson" <kevin.wilson100@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:ILBxqz.1wIt@lugnet.com... (...) Technic Starter Set (8022-1) hit the spot nicely. Just in case anyone else needs to do this :-) Kevin (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote: (SNIP) (...) 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! (...) (SNIP) (...) (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) This phenomemon is the reason why any pneumatic mechanism (such as steering) that you intend to stop in the middle (with pistons at the half way point) should always use two opposing pistons. This equalises the total piston area for each (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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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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