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Jennifer, Your excavator is brilliant and easily on par with your other creations. I can barely wait for you to build your next model. In fact, if you want to build a large tracked vehicle with official LEGO parts, I would be willing to loan you my (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Sets with worm gear box?
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(...) The Tread Trekker is a S@H special this week, for $10.00 George (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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"Peter A. Vogel" <pavogel@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:G44zG3.43A@lugnet.com... (...) I have a 5288 worm gear box service pack (non-US from the UK) on Brickbay at: (URL) gear box is yellow, same as the ones in the exploration mars set. -Rob. (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Sets with worm gear box? CORRECTION
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(...) correction... the site is: www.dya-shopping.com (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) www.etas-shopping.com has them for US$10.... it contians one worm box. (25 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Yep. The main difference is that in a car gearbox, the slip rings are generally all on the same shaft, mad possible by the vastly larger selection of gear wheel sizes in "real life" 8?) ROSCO (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Set 8229 (Tread Trekker) had one for $22, but they're probably in very short supply anymore. Dave! (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi, Does anyone know of any inexpensive technic sets (preferably widely available) that contain the worm gear box, like the two that are contained in the exploration mars set? Thanks! -Peter (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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This reminds me of something I was considering building about a year ago, though not out of Lego. (I consider building a lot of things, but nothing ever gets built) I had the idea to build a remote controlled robot completely contained in a sphere. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Another Technic Creation
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(...) It gets even worse when you try to stick to minifig scale... (...) Thanks! It really needs to be updated, though. Which means I should get on track and learn perl so I can make it easier to update... --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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The Pirate Wench can be found in: <set:6251 Pirate Mini-Figures> <set:6285 Black Seas Barracuda> <set:6286 Skull's Eye Schooner> <set:6273 Rock Island Refuge> <set:6250 Crossbone Clipper> And then there's Gail Storm (many aliases) and Alexis (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.technic)
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(...) I suppose therein lies the real trick - no doubt there are many ways to skin a cat, but the way I usually approach this is to keep both things in mind all of the time. Sometimes it is possible to "compartmentalise" each by settting dimensional (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Another Technic Creation
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(...) No problem Mike, I know the score ;-) Jennifer Clark (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) There is a good section about gearboxes on (URL) , which should shed some light on the matter. It turns out that the 8448 gearbox is very similar to that in a real car, apart from not having synchros, although as someone has pointed out to me (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yes, this is indeed quite true. As many people have noted, children below the quoted age bracket on a set may very well successfully compile the model. With the introduction of the Expert Builder sets in the late seventies, I was lucky to get (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)
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The GMLTC have reported using aquarium tubing as a substitute for the Lego pneumatic tubing. Michel MagnanI (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.technic)
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um, perhaps you could rotate the picture 180 degrees so that it would be right side up? just a thought... Build On! John Matthews Jonathan Wilson <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:3A127666.DBC44B....com.au... (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) sincerely hope officials from the human resources department at LEGO take note. You could really teach their Technic set designers a thing or two! --Sean (25 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Cheap 9V motors in Holland
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Dank je Ronald, ga morgen meteen even shoppen. Er zit trouwens nuttig spul bij 'die Znap handel': gladde 1/4 rond 8 studs bochten (voor spatborden van vrachtauto's) en gladde 16-studs balken, voor kraanbomen en over elkaar glijdende constructies. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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