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Ok, I am A computing person not a cival enginer but here are my comments (...) Additonaly thier is the fact that in many cases Lego parts are over engineered! Whilst meccano parts are fine for more traditonal mechanical designs. I feel that with (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Paddle pop is accually the brand name of a particular type of icecream. (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic)
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(...) In the US we commonly call them Popsicle sticks, but that's actually a case of trademark dilution, as Popsicle is a trademark for a brand of "paddle pops". I think there is a generic name but I forget what it is. Note that these sticks are (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic)
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During my first year of Civil Engineering, we had a project of building a model bridge using paddlepop sticks (Australian term), i'm not sure what they're called around the world, but their the wooden sticks you get with ice creams bought in (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Nicole and family - I am very sorry for your loss. Ken was a part of many conversations that I followed in various groups and though I didn't have many opportunities to interact with him, I respected his opinions and enjoyed reading his posts. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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(...) If only the Institution of Civil Engineers had a 'construction toy position'! In my opinion they do not do enough to promote civils amoing schoolchildren and when they do (usually at the 14-16 level) they tend to use spaghetti or straws for (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I'll get 5.x for Windows installed and see if that works - strange, QT4 files normally don't work in Media Player (I have NT4 on my PC so I can't install MP7 if that supports QT4.x), so I would have expected MP to choke on a .mov file, not QT. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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"Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> skrev i meddelandet news:GFwFDH.8JM@lugnet.com... (...) As far as I know, Meccano has 'L'-beams, and perhaps 'U' too? At least there are large plates, with folded sides, which is effectively a 'U'. (I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) My helicopter project is at (URL) - not as good looking as Andrew's, but I think more technically complete. (But I'm biased!) (...) Well, there's heaps of sites out there with pictures of helicopters - and google now has an image search engine (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) No, no, no, no, no, haven't you heard? According to the more enlightened amongst us, Bionicles are no good, evil bastardazations of the Technic line, and you simply CAN'T do ANYTHING with them. Really. It says so in the .bionicle group, plain (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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