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(...) Depends how old the set is. If the set is only recent then you need to call lego customer service to get another copy (they will probobly send you one for a small fee) If its an older set go to www.brickshelf.com, they have instruction (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Source of technic manuals?
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Hello World, I'm sorry to be a pain, this is probably a question that gets asked quite a few times, but... Is there a site on the Internet somewhere that has the building instructions that comes with lego sets in, for example, PDF format? My son has (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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A 1 rotation/ 36 second escapement is going to be really tough. Mine is 1 turn / 8 seconds, and is is close to the edge of the reliability envelope. The big problem is that the escapement must come to a complete stop with every pendulum swing, and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Gear train friction?
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(...) Hello, I stumbled across your posting about the continuos loop chimer and it blew my mind. So I decided to join lugnut I'm also curently working on a weight driven pendulem clock and I'm going to try to build your device. I originaly tried to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | off topic test
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off topic test (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:m3k89e4iva.fsf@...ldomain... (...) The difference is, when the bush is rubbing against the beam, it's a much greater surface area than when the axle-end rubs the end-stop. ROSCO (25 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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I don't have these sets, but I found something similar in the 8002 Destroyer droid. It came with an amendment sheet for page 30, showing a different position for the two rubber bands. Now the photo on page 31 shows yet another position for them.... (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Gear train friction?
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(...) The length of one axle is normally slightly shorter than a corresponding beam, ie. an axle #4 is slightly shorter than a 4 stud beam. So this is probably why you achieve some slack when putting bricks on either side of the axle to support it. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 3 Section Telescopic Crane Boom
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(...) Excellent stuff - I was hoping you had something different in mind :-) Jennifer Clark (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8457 Power Puller
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Chain:- 81 links (i think) Motor:- 9v same as mindstorms. Flex System? I like this set, almost tempted to get a 2nd set to get another motor and big set of wheels.. -- Jason King LugNet #665 Jose Antonio Vacas <joseavm@meta4.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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Chain:- 81 links (i think) Motor:- 9v same as mindstorms. Flex System? I like this set, almost tempted to get a 2nd set to get another motor and big set of wheels.. -- Jason King LugNet #665 Jose Antonio Vacas <joseavm@meta4.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 8457 Power Puller
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Chain:- 81 links (i think) Motor:- 9v same as mindstorms. Flex System? I like this set, almost tempted to get a 2nd set to get another motor and big set of wheels.. -- Jason King LugNet #665 Jose Antonio Vacas <joseavm@meta4.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Strange anomalies in 8460 and 8868...
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(...) I noticed this too. The reason being is that-- to my knowledge-- the picture displayed is just a mirror image of another photo. I don't know why they would do that though. I can't say much as to your 8868 anomaly, as I don't know much about (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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I was just looking around at various pictures of the 8460 (Pneumatic Crane Truck) and 8868 (Airtech Claw Rig) sets, and noticed a few strange things... All the pictures I have seen of 8460 (including the box and Brickshelf scan) appear to have the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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I was just looking around at various pictures of the 8460 (Pneumatic Crane Truck) and 8868 (Airtech Claw Rig) sets, and noticed a few strange things... All the pictures I have seen of 8460 (including the box and Brickshelf scan) appear to have the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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I want the instructions for the big RoboRiders, but they can apparently no longer be found at lego.com. I tried to load the smaller riders, but they are all one big error. Are these on brickshelf or anything? (25 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 8457 Power Puller
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I have build 2 of these machines, this is a nice set, but I have a two complaints about this set. 1. the flex stearing system does not respond good. 2. the mechanisme to transfer the motor to the wheels is a sloppy, there are 5 chains with each 16 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Gear train friction?
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Amnon, I've also found a not in-significant source of friction is the bushes against the beams (or whatever your axle goes through). I've reduced this a bit on occasion by not using bushes to hold axles in position, but having a brick at each end, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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I had another mechanism in mind. I'll see if I get a chance one of these days to make a prototype.... Duq "Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:G503FM.4tz@lugnet.com... (...) add (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Gear train friction?
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One of the tough problems in building a clock is to design a very low friction, very tall gear ratio drive. I want the spool to turn around somewhat less than once every half hour, and the escapement to turn once every six seconds, so I need around (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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