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(...) Service catalogues (for Australia at least) refer to these as (cyberslam) cannons or launchers. HTH James (who's afraid Richard will field these next brickwars) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well, they might not be up there yet. In the castle context, we call them trebuchets... in technic, I don't know. -Shiri (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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What is the preferred name of the "guns" used in sets like (URL) couldn't manage to find them in any of the parts inventory so I guess I am using the wrong name for them. Kerry -- ===...=== Dr Kerry Raymond, Distinguished Research Fellow (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Thanks Dave I got the picture now, nice job on the ASCII diagram. jt (...) -- ---...--- James J. Trobaugh North Georgia LEGO Train Club (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) the (...) Not to jump in for Mike, but I think this is kinda what he's talking about: (bear with my wonderful ascii) rubber '24' cog gear |***...*** band __/\/\/\__ (I tried) | ***...*** _\ /_ | *******\* / | < ***...*** > | /_ _\* | /_ _\ | (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I also have an 855 Crane set, as well the 853 Car Chassis - in both sets I experienced problems with the 1x16 bricks breaking in two (I would crazy glue them together, but it's just not the same - sometimes they would break again). Also, some (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Mike, Just recently the topic of rubber band gun out of LEGO came up here at the office and I was thinking of making one this weekend. Your idea sounds good and simple, but I'm having trouble picturing the design. Could you supply a pic or (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I experimented with this a while ago. I managed to fire a 10 stud axle about 5 meters using an elastic band setup with a beam stricking the axle. However, this didn't give a very gun-like contraption, and I never quite perfected a trigger (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) David A. Karr made a LEGO machine gun that can fire 17 2x4s in 1.9 secs. See it at: (URL) . Alan (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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one word cool you know what would be cool? If you made a movie with you firing the 'gun'! - (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic)
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