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(...) understand how some of it works... What does the lower layer do? Is it just concerned with 2's complementing and clearing the accumulator? cheers, Alexander (17 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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Update ====== Many more categories with feature comparisons added. Over a hundred new photos. Eric blakbird (URL) Technicopedia> (17 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:Jt21tp.nGo@lugnet.com... (...) rectangle expanding into an empty rectangle in the bottom right corner of the YouTube play bar. Clicking this will allow you to enter full-screen mode. (Esc (...) (17 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well, I finally got the video put together, with some narration to explain a little bit of what's going on. I wish I could put it on YouTube a bit bigger (it's all 640x480, but YouTube seems to compress it down). (URL) sorry about the (...) (17 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Wow! I for one can hardly wait to see the video of this. And I would love to see more explanation and construction details too! cheers, Alexander (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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Thanks -- making a hexagon out of equilateral triangles occurred to me after submitting my post, but I really had no idea what was going on with the funny angle, so this has been very educational. As always, this is one of the most helpful and (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Good to know; I loved it from the first time I saw it, but the rarity was a problem. (...) I had an instant use for that piece as well - flip-flop gates for a working model of Digi-comp II: (URL) when I eventually get time to compile it... the (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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(snip) and the very rare but handy "Technic bush with 3 axles" (URL) (yeah, from just one set it (...) That particular piece is showing up in more sets: The Batman Copter with Scarecrow's bi-plane has three of those pieces in the set, and the new (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) A 12-12-17 triangle is very nearly right, and has angles of about 44.9 degrees. I used four of them in making a stop sign: (URL) Note that all eight corners are nicely studded down. Joe and Brian wrote: (...) Well whaddaya know! I'd always (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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(...) Try approaching it in steps. Can you make an equilateral triangle out of Technic beams? Don't worry about making the angles rigid, just make a structure with three equal-length sides, connected near the corners (connected with something that (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The tri-blade is great for hexagons.... (URL) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) It would appear that they're approximately 126.8698976 degrees. That's from approximating some angles and noticing that what I think they were trying to do was to create the geometry such that a 3-4-5 right triangle was possible. DaveE (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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Your best bet would be the #4 angle connector, its a 135 degree angle. (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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I'm trying to make a largish (20 cm across or so) octagon or hexagon out of technic parts. I thought this would be easy, because I believed that the bent technic beams (e.g. (URL) 32348>) had a 135-degree angle, or at least some angle that would (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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Hello Jonathan, You have to check the pictures on the box to see how the blade is mounted to the bulldozer... Greetings Maico Arts Jonathan Wilson schreef: (...) (17 years ago, 8-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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Update ====== Sets from 1981 have been listed including 8844, 8845, 8846, 8848, and 8859. blakbird (17 years ago, 8-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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Both the 951 instructions and the 856 instructions on Peeron show a bulldozer on the front page with a flat blade. However, the instructions show how to build a front end loader with no instructions for the bulldozer at all. Anyone know whats going (...) (17 years ago, 7-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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"Nathan Bell" <Radarbell@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Jsn2Jz.7nD@lugnet.com... (...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 7-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Clarification: the blade design in the pictures works but my modification did not work- therefore the overall blade range remains about 45 degrees. (17 years ago, 6-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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