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Re: I am appalled...
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lugnet.technic
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Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:50:22 GMT
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> The roborider molded-together semi-gearbox with a half gear jammed on is
> close to useless for practical applications. I've never seen a picture of a
> mechanical thing that uses one in any functional way. I think they intend
> for them to be useful, because they have some axle holes and some places to
> fit gears, but they don't quite make it.
I wondered what that half molded gear was for too. Turns out that it allows to
gearboxes to be attached together- the half gear on the bottom of one works
with the worm gear on the top of the other. Here's a picture-
http://members.nbci.com/thomasfoote/tcp/crb13.JPG
As a result of stacjing the gearboxes, this Throwbot has movement in the waist
and neck/shoulders.
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| Roboriders could be saved for us big kids (I just turned 16, twenty years ago) with a few minor changes. 1. Split the ball joint cross axle off of the leg assembly. I can do this myself, but I hate to take a razor saw to Lego parts. The detatched (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)
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