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With all of the back and forth lately on the lack of Technic spares, I've found that Spectrum Educational Supplies in Aurora Ontario has many hard-to-get parts, including the little pneumatic pumps. Without keeping everyone in suspense... Specturm (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Truss Joint Construction Details
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Why don't we just have one *HUGE* newsgroup and then apply our own e-mail filters! :-)) W PS - I'm not serious! -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Avery Sent: 15 March 2002 (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Truss Joint Construction Details
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(...) LOL Hey! Do you want to start another flame-war? ;-) I've wondered about this myself. I think bridges are of interest to both groups. My bridge is made of mostly Technic parts, and my question was about construction technics involving Technic (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Truss Joint Construction Details
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(...) You have my word :) (...) Yeah, that's always something :) (...) Of course I have never tried to build a bridge or anything that uses a truss (sp?) as of yet. And BTW bridges should be .train or something, it's not Technic! *joking* /Tobbe (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) carry big sets not parts :( (...) Thanks but it's a little late, say two years or since I got out of my dark ages cave :) /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) That was meaningful to me, I got my name. The useless flame-war if Tim was right or not was a pity though since both him and I had agreed already. AND PLEASE DON'T BRING THIS DISCUSSION BACK TO LIFE AGAIN :))) (...) /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) Did I mention English is my second language? Flood is obviously wrong word here, but I think I can turn this to my right :) Imagine the .technic.bionicle group has a wide stream of messages, if it get's to crowded they will flood .bionicle and (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Erroded axles
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(...) but (...) the (...) you (...) Right, I came to the same conclusion. They're good enough (except for the null grip) if used on a smooth surface and with not too much tension. When for any reason the links are no more exactly aligned, the force (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: anyone got hardware specifications for the RCX?
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(URL) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bionicle folks went away?
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(...) Ok I'll adjust my above statement to read Bionicle is bad for Lego Technic. (...) This whole argument reignited because of my one word retorical response to Tobbe's original post. (And it would be rude not to reply to reply's) (...) I wouldn't (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | RE: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) And don't forget the very, very meaningful debate about what MOTM should be called! Think that one got 72 per hour at one point. Discussion is healthy, its what sets us apart from the apes (or should that be Rahi?) William (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | RE: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) his (...) Nah! I like the Bionicle bits - lovely colours, great parts, love the ball and socket stuff, but the only thing you (may) be seeing from me are pneumatic walkers using the lift arm with ball parts as legs and other such creatures. (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Bionicle folks went away?
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(...) This is a complex argument to start with. For Lego the company, Bionicle has been very, very good. For the proliferation of Lego Technic sets that are big and fancy, perhaps Bionicle is bad. I could accept the argument that Lego will produce (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) Find your nearset supplier at (URL) your bank balance!) ROSCO (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) Only problem is they don't have the full range of elements. Try finding half thickness lift arms for example. Or, my favourite, black beams, or any colour, but in the size/number I want. For example, I'm building a crane boom, and need 4 16U (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: anyone got hardware specifications for the RCX?
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(...) Hi Jonathan, Kekoa Proudfoot has a very detailed page about the RCX internals here (URL) it's a large page - there's *lots* of info there! ROSCO (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | anyone got hardware specifications for the RCX?
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Since there are projects like legos (or whatever its called now) that replace the firmware of the RCX, there must be some hardware documentation out there. What processor does it use? What other hardware is in that box? Memory maps? (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) It seems that William has taken up the challenge to put his parts where his mouth is. (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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In lugnet.technic, Tobbe Arnesson writes: <snip> (...) flood the Technic group? My definition of flooding would be scores of posts in a matter of days. Since the beginning of 2002, there has been a grand total of 123 Bionicle posts. It seems like (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | RE: Bi*nicle folks went away?
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(...) Isn't that an oxymoron? William (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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