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Re: Building a realistic working road grader from Technic LEGO parts.
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:49:36 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Geoffrey Hyde wrote:
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> "Nathan Bell" <Radarbell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Jsn2Jz.7nD@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.technic, Geoffrey Hyde wrote:
> > > Has anyone attempted a road grader in Technic? The few models I can
> > > recall
> > > LEGO themselves doing didn't address the steering aspects needed.
> > I did a large technic road grader in 2006, and although the steering
> > works, it
> > does not work exactly like the real thing. I tried to modify it to make
> > the
> > blade rotate further, but it did not work and the design in the pictures
> > is
> > finished.
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> Another two pneumatic cylinders, and I think you would've had the steering
> like a real grader does. I've seen few other models with that degree of
> steering capability, and while it's not the exact same thing it comes pretty
> close, given the limitations of Technic elements.
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=148840
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> Could you have done the steering without the special suspension elements
> LEGO produced for Technic models that use them? I doubt it would be
> possible, or it would look extremely blocky and awkward if it was possible.
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> Cheers ...
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> Geoffrey Hyde
Hello Geoffrey
Thanks for the positive comments!
In order to get a steering system that could have that many axis of freedom in
that amount of space it was necessary to use the ball-and-socket pieces. There
may have been another way, but not that I could think of. Check bricklink or
dacta and then if you can't find any of those pieces, let me know.
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