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Re: Anyone know Redjack Ryan?
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 11 Jan 2005 03:12:42 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Alex Taylor wrote:
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> Hi, and thanks for the comments, Ross. Your cc2800 is awesome, as are your
> micro-scale models :).
Thanks!
> I built the model by working on it every weekend starting in September-December
> of 2003 while in my economy single dorm room. I rebuilt the tub, mast, gantry,
> fairleads, and the front of the house over the summer before taking the model to
> the DHSdiecast.com open house, where it won 1st place in the model contest.
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> It is, indeed, based on the BE 1250W machine; good call. It is built to scale
> for the lego minifigures (I used 1:44.3), so the boom (225' long on the real
> machine) is just over 5' long, and it carries a 35 CY scale bucket. The drag,
> hoist, and swing functions are operable using a Lego remote and Mindstorms RCX
> brick as a receiver; the walk cycle uses a battery box located inside the model,
> but it can't support it's own weight. It has 11 motors: 4 walk, 3 swing, 2 drag,
> and 2 hoist. It also has 2 sliding doors on the left side, and the rear house of
> the machine can also open using 2 large sliding doors. The ideas for the sliding
> doors and the roller base that the machine sits on were originally developed by
> Beat Felber from engineeringwithabs.ch.
Thanks for the info, and welcome!
> Also, no Lego bricks were modified or glued in this model.
Excellent!
> Additional photos of the model can be found here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=111842
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> If all goes well, I will be bringing this model to show at the Children and
> Parents Expo in the Indiana State Fairgrounds in February.
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> I am currently in the acquisition/planning stage of building my next model,
> which will be Peabody's Marion 8900 :)
Sounds good. I was actually planning Big Muskie when I got sidetracked to build
the cc2800. Oh well, one day I might go back to it, but the walking system was
giving me headaches.
ROSCO
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