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Re: custom aluminum axle
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Tue, 1 Jul 2003 06:03:43 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Travis Kunce wrote:
Hey guys,

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=48225

I'd love to know if anyone else would be interested in using this type of
thing.  tomorrow i'm getting a quote from a production shop to see if it
would be worth getting a lot more of this made.  I'll let you all know what
I find out.

Hmmmm it would certainly solve the problem of bending in my all-terrain crane...

But if used as a rotating axle, my guess is it would damage the holes it ran in
pretty quick unless they're re-inforced. I seem to recall John Barnes fiddled
with brass re-inforced technic beams, and Jennifer Clark used some on her crane.

ROSCO



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  Re: custom aluminum axle
 
i tell you what... after about 2 hours of continuous running tonight, i couldn't see and visible damage to the bricks. Its polished rather nicely and feels like its about the same smoothness of an actual tech axle. In my application there appear to (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)

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  custom aluminum axle
 
Hey guys, After running my roundup ride all day at the roadshow preview at Lego headquarters last weekend, it bacame apprent that an entire days worth of torquing the main technic axle is too much for the abs plastic which looked somewhat like a (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.general)

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