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Re: Superfluous Holes
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:35:43 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Steve Lane writes:
> I'm starting a grunge/metal band called the 'Superfluous Holes'. All our
> song's are going to be about Lego or Lego building. Only joking! What I
> really wanted to say was why do we need six superfluous holes on every
> Technic wheel ever produced. Why can't we have some with 1 central hole and
> a proper imatation of a wheel hub/trim. Lego have recently given us tyre's
> with proper tread pattern's so how about proper hubs/wheeltrims. If you
> think about it, it's the only part of say a truck model we have no control
> of. That and Windscreens and wheel arches.... and now I come to think of it,
> wipers.
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> All we can do at the moment is add the odd round part to alter the
> appearance. It's not like we ever use the six holes unless we combine two
> tyre's together when we put four wheels on a driven axle. We could easily
> find a workaround for this especially if the holes we're still included on
> the back but didn't go all the way through.
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> Perhap's we should gather wider support and then bombard the Dear lego
> newsgroup?
>
> Steve
The holes can be used to attached a pulley to the wheel to motorize it, ie.
if you're going with a rubber band drive as opposed to a direct gear drive.
I imagine a train person could also use the hole to do a piston kind of
thing, too.
George
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