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Re: 8889 Technic Truck
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Date: 
Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:25:00 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Alastair Disley wrote:
   The 8889 Technic Ideas book has four pages dedicated to a six-wheeled truck, which appears to be built largely from a combination of 8859 and 8860. Unfortunately it fails to give instructions, and all the pictures are from one side, leaving much of the underneath and far side a mystery.

When my parents gave me this book in the mid 80s I wanted to build this truck. Just like you I only had the 8860 car chassis and I bought a used 8859 in ´95. But in the second half of the 80s I used the boogie lift for two of my truck models which are shown below. While original trucks have double mounted wheels at the back I copied the system 1:1 as I thought it worked properly. But then I discovered the same issues you did while I figured out the rest of the truck myself.





Nice to see someone has built the ‘original’ one from the book :)

Dennis Bosman

www.dennisbosman.nl



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The 8889 Technic Ideas book has four pages dedicated to a six-wheeled truck, which appears to be built largely from a combination of 8859 and 8860. Unfortunately it fails to give instructions, and all the pictures are from one side, leaving much of (...) (17 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic) !! 

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