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| (...) What, you mean like this? (URL) half-wondered if it was possible when I wrote the original post, but when I saw your reply, I knew I'd have to have a go. It's drawn in MLCAD, but it works, the locking table has been built and added on to my (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Bionicle Father's Day posters
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| One is here: (URL) the other: (URL) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
| | | | | BrickFest 2002 reminder
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| This is a quick reminder that the initial registration deadline is rapidly approaching. If you haven't made up your mind yet, now's the time! BrickFest 2002 will be even better this year with lots of Technic and Mindstorms related activities going (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: How to program 8479???
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| Thanks so much, Rob, I'll be checking this out! Jean-Marc (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | 8872 at last - purrrr!
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| Just finished building my boxed (with plastic tray) 'remove the dust and it would be mint' 8872 (low-loader with fork-lift) which arrived in the post this morning. £16 plus postage from eBay - I'm a very happy bunny! Time to stop messing around with (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| "James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message news:GxCEMC.Ayo@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Hey! That's me!... (...) (NALUG) (...) Mario Ferrari built a sensorless version of my switch that worked well enough. I had to use the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) I've had a couple people say that now. :) (...) Normally the switch won't even have it stalled for a few seconds; it takes less than a second of power to flip the switch over. Just tapping the button isn't *quite* enough time, but it's not (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) I had looked at that thread a while ago for ideas, but skipped a lot of the suggestions because they involved sensors or complex-seeming technic assemblies. Looking through it again, I find that my switch is *very* similar to Carlo Ottolina's (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) The instructions are updated: (URL) moved the completed model back to the top of the .mpd, although that makes the instructions feel backwards to me. thanks, James (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) 20 minutes?!?! Yikes! I've stalled my motors often, but only for a few seconds. I imagined that would be the same situation for your switch. Leaving it on for 20 min- you're boldly going where no Technic-head has gone before... ;-) TJ p.s. I (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) Take a look at this thread: (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) Yes, I'll update it tomorrow; I don't have MLCAD installed at home. Sorry about the poor .mpd; this is not just my first motorized switch, it's my first time using MCLAD. :) (...) Thanks! I owe a lot to other people who have done these in the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| <SNIP> troubleshooting time on this assembly. (...) Will you be posting a new .mpd file to your brickshelf account showing the changes? BTW the othe .mpd file was *not* right. What I mean by that is that usually when one creates a .mpd file the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) Well, some good, some bad. The good is that leaving the motor going in one direction for 20 minutes causes no separations and no apparent stress to any parts. The bad is that it did overheat the motor, which wouldn't run again until it cooled (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) Hmm, Ok. Since it sounds like I'm not risking the motor, and I have lots of 8 tooth gears, I'm going to experiment by leaving the motor on for a while, and seeing what happens. thanks very much for the information, guys! This is exactly the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) Yep, and with this one using an 8-tooth gear straight on the rack, even with a solid structure you'd be very likely to break the gear. If you can supply an accurately timed "pulse", that would reduce the risk, but with the geared motors, it (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) I've always been hard on my motors, stalling them often. It's never seem to affect their performance, or even damage them. The difficult part of stalling a geared motor is containing the large forces generated on the structure surrounding the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: Motorized Switch
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| (...) Ok, I guess I see that, although I could only find a couple designs, and they seemed much more complicated that necessary. (...) Hmm. Is motor damage likely to occur? The intention with this would be for either an operator or an RCX to briefly (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | Re: colors of small pneumtic pump
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| "David Arnon" <arnon@NOSPAMsilicon-value.com> wrote in message news:GxAMC4.Hzv@lugnet.com... (...) grey, (...) While I can't say for certain, I suspect that this might be a clue: (URL) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | | | colors of small pneumtic pump
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| I came across this store on bricklink: (URL) on "pneumatic" to get a full list incl. black, light grey, dark grey, trans-dark blue, trans-light blue & white!!) Where all those colors come from? I'm aware of that part only in yellow & blue. anyone??? (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)
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