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Hey Chris, Well obviously the octopus is my faviourite part ; ) This is some excellent work. It is always great to see some technical lego solutions to various challenges, and this one stands up very well. Thanks for sharing and God Bless, Nathan (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Tick Tock.... The Flying Octopus Clock
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I have uploaded a ldraw file of my clock before the chimes. The clock is complete but the parts are not in an instructional order yet. (URL) Chris (16 years ago, 11-Jun-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Air Compressor Tank
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(...) Respectfully, I believe this is not custom, it's the fischertechnik pneumatic tank. It is larger than the LEGO tank, and has 4 ports instead of two. They run about USD $6-7 retail, but you're required to buy them in lots of 10, so they can be (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jun-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New Crane...
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(...) Bob, thanks for the compliments! I think that 2 or 3 Tie Interceptors would me more than doable! I am expexting it to be able to lift around 10 lbs at the full height of 25 feet, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 lbs with only 5 feet of (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jun-08, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: New Crane...
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(...) This is of course a very impressive crane, all in terms of size, complexity and how well it is capturing the look of the real thing. When it's finished, please post a pic showing its maximum load capacity - do you think 2 or 3 UCS Tie (...) (16 years ago, 5-Jun-08, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) I have almost finished the Ballast cart: (URL) wish there was somewhere I could get a few of those new linear actuators. I really need them before August so I can finish this thing in time for Brickfest! Enjoy! -Alvin. (16 years ago, 5-Jun-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Air Compressor Tank
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(...) Janey "Red Brick" (16 years ago, 2-Jun-08, to lugnet.technic)
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Does anyone know where this air compressor tank came from and/or what it is? Is it a custom-made thing? If not, where can you get them? (URL) (16 years ago, 1-Jun-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Skid steer: 8271 alternate
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(...) A very nice model indeed that I built 2 years ago - quite challenging for someone like me more used to Technic models than to SNOT... ((URL) never had before the opportunity to thank you for publishing the photos... Philo (17 years ago, 24-May-08, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) good stuff, nathanael! (after more than 30 years i still haven't mastered technic building yet.) looking back at your brickshelf directory, i also like the 4508 'roxy' alternate and the 4099 transformer (been trying to come up with a (...) (17 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Skid steer: 8271 alternate
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Hi. After seeing more alternates here, I was reminded of an alternate I uploaded recently. I've been away for a while, and am now back with a small alternate for set 8271. This skid steer is the result: (URL) Here's the rest of the (URL) Hope to be (...) (17 years ago, 21-May-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Pythagoras and his triangles and building
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Hi all, If you are like me, you like to make things sturdy when you build them. One way to do this is to build cross links. Putting things at angles other than 90 degrees is helpful, but then you need to know some Pythagorean triples to do the (...) (17 years ago, 21-May-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Big motorized grader by Techniker
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Hello all. I can't post much anymore since art school takes most of my time, but still check the net for awesome new designs. There are not many Lego graders out there, but another one by Techniker just emerged, and its awesome! (URL) you recall, (...) (17 years ago, 20-May-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | LEGO Technic F14A Tomcat
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Hi, It has been a long time since I've posted here at lugnet, but I have finally finished my scale model of a F14A Tomcat (thanks to Magnus for giving me deadline :) The model is made from LEGO Technic. It has the following features: - Electric (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic) !
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| | New MOC: My convertible
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(3 URLs) Inspired by the Arvo bros, although I don't know if this does their amazing work justice. Please let me know what you think! --Bram Custom aluminum brick keychains: (URL) (17 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Variation of old pneumatic pump from the 80s
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Hello, The same long pump I have seen it in set 8680 too. On Erik's website you can see he uses the pump in red for the digger. In my digger it has a short pump. The only set I know of which uses the longer pump is the 8680. Apparently there is also (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Variation of old pneumatic pump from the 80s
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The long handle pump is mentionned here: (URL) (17 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi, yesterday I came a cross a strange pump from set 8680 ((URL)). This is the pump I found: (URL) What's different from usual? The piston (I'll call "piston" the black part and "cylinder" the yellow/red part) is longer, as it comes from a long (...) (17 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Back to Basics (Kit Reviews)
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[Crossposted to Technic] (...) I really liked this model, especially the amount of features built into a nice looking package. My only complaint was that I'd have loved to have the real unsprung rocker-bogie suspension modeled, even if it would have (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: GBC display in Fana'Briques, June 28-29 - call for participants
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(...) Salut Jean-Marc, (...) Are you trying to turn this LEGO event into a gastronomical meeting! You're such a gourmet ;-) (...) I'll be there - And yes that's a central place in europe. Many people from belgium, germany, switzerland and the (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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