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For all that are interested, I finally fixed the videos of the 6 leg walker and Digger on my site. The capture program for my camcorder uses a bizarre mpeg codec to save things, hence the unloadability. After a little re codeccing, they should now (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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The action on the backhoe is super! Most pneumatics ore pretty poor. Yours is very real in its synchronization of movements. Good work! -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net (URL) Newsom" <ab8ten@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GCsH7n.Hw6@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) At last! I've been dying to see the videos of that digger for months :-) The compactness of the digger still amazes me, it must have driven you nuts trying to fit everything into that small amount of space. Jennifer (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Jennifer Clark <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3AF2B780.146F3E...h.ac.uk... (...) walker (...) nuts (...) Hah! you're not kidding! There really was no room left at all. There are one or two extreme bodges inside that thing, (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Bob Fay <rfay@we.mediaone.net> wrote in message news:GCsMy8.5Jr@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks! The realism comes from the accuracy to the real life counterpart. By keeping all the piston mounts in the same places, the same motions were achieved. Glad (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Those movies look great! The model has a lot of functionality for its relatively small size and contains tight integration. BTW just curious...in the backhoe.mpeg file, is that black pile made up of axles? -Gaurav Thakur, raving madman Can be (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Gaurav Thakur <cp5670@supermail.com> wrote in message news:GCxG4n.Dsy@lugnet.com... (...) Yours (...) curious...in (...) Nah, black friction pegs! That's how they're sorted in my collection, so I just tipped 'em on the floor. The tub they're being (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Ah I see :-) BTW while we're on the subject of sorting, how does everyone organize their Technic pieces? I tend to just use the plastic trays that come with the sets... -Gaurav Thakur, raving madman Can be reached at cp5670@supermail.com (URL) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The problem I often run into with this approach is incompatibility of the stroke of the cylinder compared to the real one - usually it is too short, which means finding a different set of mountpoints to achieve the same working envelope as the (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Happily enough, the lego pistons seemed to have almost exactly the correct reach in each position. If I remember correctly, the real world digger I based it on used nearly identical pistons all round (it seemed). The only major difference was in the (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Good point! I spent a lot of time getting the first boom section on the excavator to move over (nearly) the proper envelope, which as you point out would allow it to (in theory) dig really deep holes in shallow bowls full of beads. The best (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Beams separeted after length in bins. Cross axles in tackle box Pegs in tackle box Gears in tackle box "Designer parts" in one bin, like soft cross axles, cross axles of other colors then black, engine parts, fairings, ribbed hoses etc etc. (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) All the following in cardboard trays i made: Axles Gears (inc worm) black pegs other pegs bushes + half bushes all other "things that are small and go on an axle" :) angle connectors + axle connectors small liftarms (up to 6l inc. cams, (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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