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My own building experiences: (...) That'S the first step of getting into the buisness of creatin own models. Building by instruction gives good ideas of how the technic bricks could be used. But that just covers just 20% (or less) of the reasonable (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I still count the stuff out of the box - if I don't, them I usually miss something out at some point ;-) It's funny you mention the axle thing by the way, someone was watching me build recently and was amazed I could do the same thing just by (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) a (...) better, (...) A _mere_ 9V? I ran one up to 54V, for short periods of time. However, the real answer is to use a hefty 12V motor. I have a 12V can motor (it might even be a 24V job, in fact) that runs quite happy with _anything_ you (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Jennifer Clark wrote: [] (...) I've been toying with this -- mostly on paper -- as well, in attempt to convert my 8448 to four-wheel dual-mode steering. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the only way to do it its to only switch modes when the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I came to exactly the same conclusion. I hope we are both correct! (...) A pure mechanical solution, which would work with 4 wheel steered vehicles, with each axle being steered to the same (or opposite) angle such as the one you describe, is (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Well, I've been thinking about this, and I think it's possible to do with an arrangement like the valve gear on your everyday steam engine. This would allow it to be changed with the wheels in any position. Implementing this, however, is not trivial (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) As a child, I only had one of the large, bulky 4,5V motor with black housing and built in gear. I actually found it pretty useful, but then again I never put my hands on any other kinds om motors. The most useful feature of the motor was the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Impressive! However, I can go further than this in both ambition and stupidity - on yet another one of those strokes of "genius" that seem to inspire us as kids, I plugged the motor into the mains with one of those leads that go into cassette (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3A1A860F.ADD4F7...h.ac.uk... (...) stupidity - (...) kids, I (...) cassette (...) it seemed (...) between AC and (...) this motor (...) and I (...) I remember we did a similar (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Do you remember how it "blew up"? I'm uncertain about just how a motor would do that. Some possible results that come to mind: * Windings repel themselves (possible explosion) * Shake to pieces (possible explosion) * Windings vaporize (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It was about 20 years ago, and I must confess that I ran and hid for five minutes after it happened, but it was virtually instantanenous, I am certain that bits flew off, and that it made a short sharp noise. This is also corroborated by the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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