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Motorizing the 8865 test car
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Date: 
Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:33:40 GMT
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It works, but it's very slow, and the cracking/clicking noise that it made when
trying to make the car move on something else than hard floor will haunt me for
the rest of my days. =P

The motor still works fine though, and I could not detect any broken Lego... so
far.

Oh, and only the first speed is enabled, obviously.



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  Re: Motorizing the 8865 test car
 
(...) <Snip> (...) This reminds me of my effort to add radio control to my 8466... (URL) deal. It works, but is heavy, slow to start, and has an almost unresponsive steering. It also happens that backing up is faster than going forward. Strange. As (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)

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