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(...) Yup :) (...) The inner tension of the gear after molding got out? (...) n/p I have a few #6 axles and z16 in my overflow bin... /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) *digging through layers of bins and instructions to find my slide calliper* Okay, measuring from one side, two gear tops resting on the caliper on each side the gear is 17.50 mm and measuring the other diagonal it's 17.45. Note that my caliper (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I wouldn't hold my breath :-) Not owning a car, one of my design criteria is that models have to fit into a plastic carrier bag for transporting on the train, so three axles is about as far as it can go with cranes :-) I had to take the crane (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well spotted! It's a hack :-) The doors have had a triangle cut out of them as they were so close to being perfect it would have been a shame not to use them, and the mirror brackets are flex tubes bent to 90 degrees. They are attached to a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) <snip> Tobbe, Was there any noticeable deformation of the boiled gear? For example, did it have any out-of-roundness (i.e. ovalization) and/or was it warped? Thanks, TJ (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.technic, Tobbe Arnesson writes: <snip> (...) Ha! How about that? We now have one confirmed test that gear-boiling works. Anyone care to speculate on the physics behind this? TJ p.s. Thanks Tobbe for sacrificing your gears and axles. (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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FUT: lugnet.technic (...) There's a lot of talk and little workshop here. I know nothing about gear streangth, I have never broken a gear - unitl today. Feeling the only way to settle this is to actually test it: 1) I took a z16 gear and boiled it (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha) !
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ROFL William PS - You can borrow my flame-proof suit if you like! -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of Steven lane Sent: 05 March 2002 16:34 To: lugnet.technic@lugnet.com Subject: Re: (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) William, you are of couse completely right that it shoud be a graphic. Now Prince's squiggle is a strange & useless contorted device. Therefore we should of course use a silouette of more or less any piece of bionicle :) Steve (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yes, I can see how this would help the progress of scientific knowledge, but realize that technic pieces are hard to come by in the first place these days.. you cannot walk into your local toystore and pick up a supercar... that I'll take the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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