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Jay, The Throwbot "ankle" part, as seen on: (URL) the ball and socket joint used in the Stormtrooper (I'm not sure about C3PO, I don't have it). As for the "ball and axle" part, the image is missing the little black ball that fits into the socket, (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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Ok all I'm sorry but arcanamachi@netzero.net has been clogged up with some very large files making it impossible for me to get mail there. Try botsmaster3000@hotmail.com instead. Be aware that I will only be checking mail once today (Friday) and (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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The store name its "the dollar store" and is locally owned and operated apparently with no national chain affiliation. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "r2" <lego@r2eng.com> wrote in message news:GCsJr1.MHE@lugnet.com... (...) be (...) message (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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Ok there is a few large files that have mired up my mail making it impossible to receive any. Try botsmaster3000@hotmail.com. As for the store name its "the dollar store" and is locally owned and operated apparently with no national chain (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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(...) Ooops, that was a local alias I cut and pasted by mistake. The correct address is: (URL) There are rollers on the truck I based the model on, you can see them in (...) (URL)I see, however I should warn you that there will be quite a bit of (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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The action on the backhoe is super! Most pneumatics ore pretty poor. Yours is very real in its synchronization of movements. Good work! -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net (URL) Newsom" <ab8ten@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GCsH7n.Hw6@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Does anyone know all the different sizes of the Technic “ball and axle” parts seen in the Star Wars Technic “Stormtrooper” and “C3PO”? I am making some “home made” versions of these parts and I need to know the different lengths of the axles. Also, (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.fun, lugnet.technic)
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Ok, I tried E-mailing agfain, it was returned dang it! I made a post here for it, LMK there waht u want to do! Thnx again for everything doc! (URL) I can Be IM'ed MSN-vestras@hotmail.com ICQ-68134272 AIM-Vestras (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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Once again, WHAT STORE DID YOU GET THESE AT? Rose "Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D." <arcanamachi@netzero.net> wrote in message news:GCsFK0.EG3@lugnet.com... (...) wedding (...) dollar (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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Dude, I have E-mailed you twice, and no responce...thik the mails messed up... Contact me on teh STF board, I will set up a Negotiation post(FYI, I am SLIZER LORD) I am so buying a ton of those from you! BTW, Congrats on teh Wedding maN! (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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This looks very nice, Miguel. Thanks for sharing! Build On! John Matthews (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad)
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Thanks for sharing, Jennifer! Once again, a remarkable model documented with an excellent web page! I wish I had your perseverence both for building and documenting. Congratulations on a job well done! Build On! John Matthews Jennifer Clark (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Kenneth, I tried to email you, but it bounced because your disk quota was full. Please email me. Also let us know if it really WAS a Dollar Tree you went to. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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For all that are interested, I finally fixed the videos of the 6 leg walker and Digger on my site. The capture program for my camcorder uses a bizarre mpeg codec to save things, hence the unloadability. After a little re codeccing, they should now (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3AF19464.B7A396...h.ac.uk... (...) If I (...) the (...) to (...) controlled. I (...) those, (...) these (...) lego (...) being too (...) arranged (...) movement) (...) the (...) (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Three actually. Game Boy Advance PC-CD ROM GameCube (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Well its been a day and no response. So let me tell you all about my haul. I was able to get 348 Slizers/Throwbots this trip. The numbers break down like this: They were four for a dollar!!, and I spent about 90 bucks. 8506 Rock/Granite 71 of them!, (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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This is very much my approach I'll try a way, and exhaust its possibilities before attacking the problem from another direction, sometimes working backwords, destroying earlier solutions that worked just fine before. This was particularly true of my (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Um, WOW! I guess I'd better get LDraw loaded on my system again and start building ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | iPlanet Support - (URL) A division of AOL Time Warner | Please do not (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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There is 2 Games to be released? Also Harry Potter? (URL) - - Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Lugnet Member# 151 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lego Magazines from the Past and Present (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) I've had this happen to be and it has left me strangely dissapointed because the idea's popped into my head it kinda feels that 'I' didn't come up with it, you have no way of tracing how you came up with the solution, it just appears in your (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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So there could be more new colours for the Bionicle Masks? What colours do you think ? Beville Pink in Trans and Normal? Michael - who is working on a surprise!! - - - Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Lugnet Member# 151 - - - - - - - - - - - (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3AF18C05.5CC396...h.ac.uk... (...) 8 (...) the (...) complexity (...) idea, (...) radically new (...) took (...) previous (...) weak. (...) in (...) Sounds familiar. I think I've (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) How about putting them at different distances from the camera ;) JB (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) to think that I am a really slow builder here! I'm looking forward to seeing the movie of it on your website once you have the video stuff working. (...) I suppose that's one good reason for building smaller models ;-) (...) Indeed, I am quite (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The main reason for not using pneumatics was simply that they are awkward to control electrically, and I wanted this truck to be totally radio controlled. I had seen pneumatic valves on various websites controlled by motors and micromotors, (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I remember this being debated here recently, where some thought Lego models were and thought not. I tend to think that some are, in that so much of the resultant quality of a creation based on something real stems very much on the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I do indeed have multiple versions of various parts of the model, and the number of attempts needed varies considerably. I probably need about 3 to 8 steps for relatively simple parts, but this will increase if, for example, there are other (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Jennifer 8) (...) Yep, I know the one. Love it when it happens, I usually smack my forehead and get somewhat mad at myself when I was so blind a second ago. Then I relize my new thought wont work either so my feelings go like a (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi all, just thought I'd share that www.lego.com has been updated on many areas. I also came across an interesting Bionicle thing ... : [taken from LEGO.com] (URL) How many different colors do bricks come in? # #A. Hmmm... At the moment, you can get (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.technic, Darren Chapman writes: lack of time (6 week old baby) and (...) So Lego constrictions restrict your Lego constructions, rofl. Steve :-) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3AF012F6.253E6F...h.ac.uk... (...) [snip] As others have said - brilliant! I just wish that I could produce things to 10th of that quality! However, a lack of money (wife and 6 (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Jennifer Clark wrote in message <3AF063EB.6F5FE421@v....ac.uk>... (...) Do you make multiple versions of one portion of a model, especially something such as arranging gears and such to fit into the structure? How many? I find that I usually can (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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In other words, Lego never provided a backstory for the RoboRiders. Well, there was some gibberish about fighting computer viruses on the internet, but that doesn't make much sense. I like to think of them as being on the same planet as the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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I finally decided to buy a couple of roboriders. I got swamp and frost and I think they are kinda cool. But...now what? What are they supposed to do? Race? Battle each other? Adam (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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First off, let me say WOW! That is one impressive model!! But I have a few questions: What problems did you run into when trying to put pneumatics into it? If I read the website correctly, trying this approach was abandoned early on mainly because (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Wow...very impressive model there! It combines the great looks of the Model Team series with the functionality of Technic to create an outstanding fusion of the two...great work! The website is also very informative and well-constructed... (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(URL) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Speaking of truck operation, one of the annoying things about the loading and tipping functions are that if you don't stop the motors at the endpoints, the gears end up getting stripped of their teeth. Having a belt driven section to allow (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi Tobbe, (...) Funny, but there may be some truth in this - you know these problems you come across that require days or even weeks of thought to solve, and then the solution just seems to pop into your head in an instant? I suppose in a mental way (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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