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(...) Could you use a hammer mechanism to launch the projectiles, or are you focused on a pneumatic solution? It seems easy enough to imagine a setup with a magazine of piston heads, a spring-loaded striking rod, and a rotary device to cock the rod. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic)
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(...) It may be listed at those stores, but is it orderable? (...) Out of stock - can't order. (...) Hmm. No indication (without an order) of back order or out of stock condition. (...) They're out of business. Steve (25 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well, at least the instruction books look quite impressive. ;) (...) I think that's the point -- LEGO is trying to lower the bar on these sets, avoiding barriers that will prevent the largest number of people from enjoying (and buying) these (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Hello everyone. I just finnished a major update over at S.W.A.T.! I uploaded about 40 new pictures for your viewing pleasure. First of all, lets start off with the mecha and space: (URL) are some pictures of battles scenes with some mecha and (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic)
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This is confirmed. LSAH completed the order today and the kit should be to me in Los Angeles by Monday, August 21. Price is $169.99. Also, the Power Puller is on back-order and should ship next week. It's priced less than I originally thought at (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I must say I feel very tempted by that offer too. I never got an 8462 when they were widely avaliable, so I'm trying to get one now. However, as I live in Berkshire, Glasgow's a little out of the way :-) Mike (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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"Eelco Kooiker" <eelco@kooiker.demon.nl> wrote in message news:FzDKKF.9zK@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) Correct. Longer, and different profile. Huw (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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"Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:3999D666.3AC858....com.au... (...) in (...) (URL) them fairly well Huw (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Excellent :-) When I get some spare time I'll get cracking on a design too and see what happens. BTW, for anyone from the UK here, Toy Stack in Glasgow (St Enoch Centre) have a pretty good sale on at the moment, although I have no idea if it (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: RC control on Pneumatics, gearboxes and polarity switches
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Ok! The project page is up and running. I'll update it as the work goes on: (URL) if the page is slow, I'll move it to another server when I find the time for it) /Tobbe - (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) That would definately be an improvement, that way you could at least keep pressure all the way, and btw, it is quite easy to control the valves with a axlejoine and say a 4L axle, but sometimes it really looks stupid:). The idea about using (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) No, so far I have seen on the pictures, they are much longer and have not a "cross-axle" between the end and the begin. Greetings, Eelco Kooiker (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Huw Millington <hmillington@cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:FzCswI.H9D@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) Those connecting rods aren't the same element as used in 8880 Supercar, are they? Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde (25 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Does anyone have a picture of either of these 2 elements? (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrd4s4mzh6d.fsf....uio.no... (...) Yes, it is the same element. IIRC there is only one other new piece used in 8458's suspension - a long connecting rod with sockets at each (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Hmmm. Sounds like a great idea. I've tried making pressurized peashooters (actually, spitwad) with LEGO without much luck. I'll give that some thought. Thanks! Randy -- Randy Anchikoski randy@viclug.tzo.com "David A." (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic)
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email me if you need them. I don't know if you guys are familiar with what I have done with the UCS sets. I created a jpg image of the sticker sheets so you may print them out on whatever you have, and don't have to use the originals. They are (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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I just got a box with the 8006 Swamp Craft, and it appears to have two of the large, angled suspension arms which are also used in the 8458 Silver Champion! Well, I don't have the 8458, but I assume they are the same element. They look very similar (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Are technic ideas books still produced? Some of the old ones on brickshelf are quite amazing. Just wish I got some of them while I had the chance! Mike (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.books, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I got the same letter, but keep in mind, LSAH ships from Connecticut, and I live in NJ. So if I order in the morning, I get the package within 2 days, usually the next day! So I was billed on the 11th, received on the 14th. I ordered it as (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The stores closest to me here in Sweden still has them on their shelfs. Perhaps I should get myself a copy before the dust hides them? I recently bought the 8480 Space Shuttle in a store so it's no rush for the larger models here in the middle (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) If you like technic sets you probably have by now a big collection of technic engine cylinder heads and round engine pistons. I know I do. I don't like single purpose pieces and I tried to think of an alternate use for them. What I came up (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Experience with Tow Truck 8462?
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(...) I read this article recently, although an immediate disadvantage that springs to mind is that if you want to move the cylinder quickly you won't be able to anymore. Another article (perhaps by the same author?) suggested that a good (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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The biggest problem I could see, especially while I had my JCB Backhoe set, was that with the handpump, directional motion in one direction was dependent on the load being levered up - the directional motion on the other direction depended on how (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I see your point, although I have to plead ignorance as to what a reduction valve is. I assume it has something to do with pressure regulation... Would it be helpful if the tank had a plunger of some type in it, which can change the volume of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I believe Linc Smith posted a long article about using some elements from disposable syringes to make an "air flow limiter". It is probably a very early post on LUGNET. He basically converted one of the T-connectors (which many people have a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Gotta learn to handle this tool one day:) Just had to add this: Using airtanks is not always a bad idea with compressors, when you only need a single or few pneumatics actions once in a while, the air tanks can be nice to have (ofcourse with (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Guess it was my tirade against the tanks you spotted:) I would absolutely love an airtank with reduction valves, btu as they are now, the tanks are little more than wide pieces of tubing, there will be no proper tank capacity without a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) -if you are meaning the store in St. Jacobs, I picked up my 8445 from the toy store in downtown St. Jacobs (the instructions I got given to get to the outlet there were _funny_, go to St Jacobs, you cannot miss it....). This would have been (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Where in the US are you and when did you order it? I got a letter from TLG just the other day stating that they still expected it to come in on the 18th. I suppose I should go check and see if I've been billed yet.... ----- Original Message ----- (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I have never seen the 8448 or the Indy storm 8445 in Canada, not even in the Lego Outlet store. The guy at the counter told me you could only get the 8448 through special order. I ordered a 8445 over 8 months ago (at the outlet store) and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) seconde-edition (...) a (...) There are no visible differences between the Mk1 dampers that broke in weeks and the ones LEGO UK sent me to replace them. The trans-blue ones also look identical, apart from the colour of course. Huw (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I have the 8445 indy car, and yes, the spring does break. I had to call into shop@home to order a new one. And I don't think that they are selling it in canada anymore either. I live in vancouver and I haven't seen one on shelves since july (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Why would it be pulled from brick & mortar stores, but not online stores? It was in 3 of the 4 stores I just checked. kbkids.com - $44.99 etoys.com - $39.99 toysmart.com - $29.98 -Adam 8^D (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) -beg to differ, not in Canada. I can get some if you want) Snip (...) I think that the air spring _is_ the problem. some people have gone through 2-3 sets of them already! James (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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The 8448's are still selling pretty strong in Skandinavia... I saw them at Legoland Billund (Danmark) for about $60 USD, and they were selling like crazy. The 8445's are also still being sold in large quantities in Danmark and Sweden, but they're (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I doubt it. I just did a USPTO trademark search and diddn't find anything obvious for "Super Street". Also, the 8445 was actually recalled from all stores, the 8448 was still sold by TLC stores until supply ran out a few months ago. 8448 was (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Could it be that 8448 also had a problem with a copyright, like 8445(Indy Storm). After all, there is a magazine called Super Street, so Super Street Sensation would definately conflict. Indy conflicts with way too many things, Indianapolis raceway, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I saw on the pictures the are transparant-blue. Are these the seconde-edition of the air-dampers?? Or are these broken afther a time too? (I know, it's a difficult question, but are there differences between the "old" and (hopefully) "new" (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I should correct mmyself. 8448 was discontinued 3 months after it was released, not 6. I can't give the details, but I know from several sources that 8448 is no more. The only chance of getting one new is the Imagination centers, but I don't (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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