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Gordon, When you wan't to lift such a heavy load the technic axles are too weak. So you have to use other materials than LEGO. I've made a 4.2 metres high Liebherr LG1550 and know how far you can go with it. A hundred kg's seems impressive, but is (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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First of all, Legomaster, let me just say that with your amazing creations such as the GG Mech...I don't see how anybody creating those can AVOID hand pains ;) I'm a pianist (not professional) so I try to take care of my fingers too...but what (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I typically end up with shoulder pain, but that's a symptom of the way I reach for the bins that surround my current workspace (bad, bad layout). The trick to working with technic for me it to not do everything with your fingers. Use brick (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) (URL) might have seen these floating around before. If I have a lot of beams to separate or pins to remove I use tools. I haven't found a decent way to remove gears yet other than pulling the axle with the offending gear through a plate (or (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Strong hands to pry apart plates? I use my fingernails or attach another brick then snap both parts off. I used to find I always had the urge to build just after cutting my nails short. :-) The worst Lego hand mangler is removing model team (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Since I work on a computer keyboard during the day, and often have Lego building sessions that last eight or ten hours, I can totally identify with you. My best suggestion: Ice down your hands after long building sessions. I just put some ice (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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I gotta ask, who else deals with the hand and finger stress from long building projects. I know it's a common ailment that we all deal with. I mean who hasn't cut, scratched or abraised themselves while building Lego. Man, I was building all day (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Jamocklaquat - Mission One Completed - Right Arm
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(URL) also <set:5110_2> - David (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic)
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Hand, Wrist, Elbow, Arm Tun, Upper Arm Pivot, Upper Arm Rotate. 2 RCX work in harmony to control the Arm. No sensors to protect it'self, it's all hands on. Jamocklaquat Click on the Arm Pix (URL) on Brickshelf (after moderation) (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics) !
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(...) It is currently only the boom base section and a hammerhead top section. They total just under 1 meter. I used beams for the chords(the vertical members at the corners), they are joined with a tile and plate sandwiching the beams. The beams (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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While dismantling my interpretation of Jennifer Clark's BobCat ((URL) and the Lego Front End Loader ((URL) I noticed that the wheels and bucket from the BobCat were the same relative dimensions as those from the FE-Loader - the concept of "BobCat's (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Thanks! (...) This crane was based on typical marine pedestal-mounted cranes of the 400~600 ton variety. I incorporated characteristics of the real cranes into my model, but at no particular scale. You will find cranes like this mounted on the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yep, that is pretty amazing. Got any pics? How long is the structure, how is it constructed? The problem, or rather potential problem, with a Lego truss is that failure is catastrophic (and I speak from experience here). You'll have one joint (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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"Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:Gzu9oo.MBx@lugnet.com... (...) know (...) It's a funny thing that, I wasn't aware of this set either until I had the skip truck at Tony Priestman's fest last year and someone had the set for (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic)
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"Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message (...) one (...) I hadn't seen that before, from what I can see of it it looks great! Jennifer (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) It was Paul Cook's. The best picture I can find at short notice is this one on Lawrence's TVLF site, it's the red truck behind the green one. (URL) Paul is reading he may be able to post a better one. (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Someone's already built a miniture homage to Jennifer's skip truck. I saw it at a show last year. I pointed it out to Simon Bennett, it even did both actions, although it was manually operated. I can't remember who built it and Jennifer wasn't (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) (URL) that I didnt know existed before - maybe you should get Tim to do something like that to go with your skip truck, too! ROSCO (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Dennis, Booms made of Technic beams like this are remarkably strong. I am working on a crane as well (who isn't!) and have tested the boom to 100Kg direct load and it doesn't even look like moving. I was pretty amazed about this result myself. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: My Pictures From Brickfest
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(...) it along to show. He explained it to me, and if I remeber correctly, I believe it's a device for accurately positioning something in 3-dimensional space. I'd better leave the detailed description to him since I'm not familiar with this type of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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