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I've heard many builders incorporate the SNOT method into their creations. As far as I can tell this means that the Lego piece is turned on its side or upside down. Am I missing something because this does not seem impressive to me at all. What's (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Strengthening Gears
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(...) So what caused the rash? Jude FUT .fun (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.fun)
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| | Re: Melting Point of ABS (Re: Strengthening Gears)
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(...) That reminds me of a picture I just took in December at Legoland - the Grand Central Station in Miniland had an amazing bit of damage due to sunlight! Check it out at (URL) (big file - sorry) - look in the bottom right corner of the 'window' (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Melting Point of ABS (Re: Strengthening Gears)
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The "service" temperature is the limit at what you should operate it at. The "mold" temperature is how LOW the mold has to be cooled to get a good shot. The "processing" temperature is the temperature the plastic has to be when it enters the mold. (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Strengthening Gears
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I have never broken a gear. But then, I am a mechanical engineer; I am nice to my gears. But I fry a lot of electronics! My experience is that the torsional stiffness of the axles is the limiting factor of high-torque designs. I have permanently (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Strengthening Gears
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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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| | Re: Strengthening Gears
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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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| | Re: Too much crane?
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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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| | Re: Too much crane?
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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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| | Re: Strengthening Gears
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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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