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The gearbox pack 673F is now on sale at half-price at S@H (URL) there a good use for it? I could use it as a motor, except I can't tell how it's powered (how many volts, nature of connection). If it only works connected to another RC motor, then it (...) (19 years ago, 19-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pictures of New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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(...) I'll start a schematic next week as this week is an unusual week at work. That should cover the pneumatic circuit. Basically, each stage gets a feed from the compressor, which goes to the middles of the two switches that drive the next stage (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: High Failure Rate of New Type 9V Geared Motor
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(...) I had the same problem with one of mine. Using them in a fast RC car might do this if it gets slammed into something. I will inform Nathanael Kuipers of the problem since he works at TLC and can tell the proper person. (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Road Grader
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(...) Hi Vineet! The model is 80% done and I have run out of yellow studs. Here is Saturday's link- (URL) may decide to make it with a black stripe down the side which would utilize the large supply of black studs I have. Since I never make (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Crane MOC made during boredom
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Hey all, thought I'd share my little crane MOC. It's a custom base with two new 9v geared motors used to drive each track through the following gears: 24 tooth crown on motor 24 tooth 8 tooth 8 tooth 24 tooth 8 tooth 24 tooth 40 tooth driving treads (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Problem registering on BZPower
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I tried to create an account on BZPower a couple of days ago. I never recieved a confirmation e-mail but have managed to logon using the details I entered (username talltim) but I then can't use most functions such as posting or looking up members. (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | High Failure Rate of New Type 9V Geared Motor
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Bad tidings! I'm experiencing a rather high failure rate with the new type 9V geared motor (#43362). This motor has been discussed before ((URL) motor can be easily recognised: when you twirl the shaft it turns very little and quickly comes to a (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Road Grader
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Nate- Compliments go out to the design of the grader! I like the way you used the pneumatics in the front steering (I guess I was wrong about the length of the piston arm!). On your other creation, the road scraper, do you also plan to use (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pictures of New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote: <snip> (...) Mark, I've tried to study the pictures, but I cannot resolve the mechanical linkages, and/or the pneumatic hookups. I was going to try to draw up a schematic, but I just can't resolve the images. (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Bionicle Muaka and Kane-ra 8538 instructions scans needed
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Hi. I recently bought a used dusty set 8538 ( Muaka and Kane-ra) (URL) There were no instructions, as often happens when buying used sets. I could not find instruction scans neither on Peeron (URL) nor on (URL) There are sets of the same (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pictures of New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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(...) Hi Kevin, Yes, the bottom right stage is the control stage, with 2 active switches. I left the third one in to keep the stability with the cams and 2L liftarms so that the 1x4 brick with holes moves as a parallelogram. I got into the habit of (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pictures of New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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(...) Hi Mark, cool stuff! I guess that the ganged switches on the far right are the switch stage, but I don't know what the other two large blocks are, or how they work. One thing I learned early with documenting MOCs, is to never use black when (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Pictures of New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote: (SNIP) (...) Here are the pictures (at last!) They show the control stage, cascade stage and steering stage of Trinary Mid-Stop pneumatic logic. Start in the centre position: (URL) to the left: (URL) back to the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Re: New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote: <snip> (...) Mark, Any news on this effort? I'm intrigued by the thought of another mid-stop mechanism. Kev (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Akira-inspired motorcycle
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(...) Cool! I ask because I tend to build things that perform (robots), and I'm always looking to find ways to speed things up. I haven't seen a geared motor geared up before. I have worked a lot with the old motors (ugh, never going back again), (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: "Backcountry's Crane"
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(...) though. It looks like r/p, and I know that from my attempt at building the truck, the steering was sifficult. (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | "Backcountry's Crane"
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This is amazing. The outriggers are the best part. Does anyone know enough german to interperet what he says? (URL) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Bell Hoss
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(...) Thanks Dave! The gearing is as follows: The center position is for the hook winch; seeing as it is the default position and will not create any drastic change in the crane's stability. The top position is for the boom winch, and the bottom (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | 8763 Toa Norik
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Yarg, its on the Bionicle website, yet I can't buy it yet. No fair Lego! (URL) Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || diablod3@gmail.com "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Akira-inspired motorcycle
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(...) (to anyone who doesn't follow, we're talking about (URL) this racer> here) It actually works pretty well. As the (URL) motors > are already geared down, they are directly useful for most applications. One motor can pull the racer quite well, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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