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Re: Another Technic Creation
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:21:58 GMT
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> > 15 years ago the Technic 4.5 V motor wasn't that
> > useful for my models.
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> Tell me about it! It was a pathetic little device, although you could give it • a
> bit of a kick by using 9V instead of 4.5V. The new 9V ones are much, much • better,
> you'd be amazed at the difference.
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 can put on it
as a load. (It is, however, a impure solution). With that motor, the risk
that was ran was that the z8 gears would snap. I too can usually manage the
technic shaft sizing thing by eye, with 5L shafts being the confusing one
(because of them being a much more recent introduction, the 3L shafts were just
uncommon, but have been around a fair time now)
There are a couple of photos of earlier (1989 or 90) technic creations on my
web page at:
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/2049/LegoJPG/LTcar1.html
I _think_ that at the time, I had the 4.5V geared motor driving, through 3:1
reduction into the gearbox (gave all 3 gears, just). After I had taken that
car apart, I started work on the Semi-Auto transmission, which I still have
here now. (It's not in a car, just in a Ziplock bag, and missing 2/3rds of the
stuff required to make it work...but it did used to work, shifting gears from
painfully slow to slow :)
James P
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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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| (...) 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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