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Re: Finally updated the videos on my site
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 8 May 2001 14:23:46 GMT
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Tom Newsom wrote:
> 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.
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 real machine. The dipper and bucket on my excavator were not
too bad in this regard, but the main boom was a total nightmare, as was the
boom on the skid steer loader. Did you come across this with your digger at
all?
Jennifer
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 | | Re: Finally updated the videos on my site
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Finally updated the videos on my site
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.technic)
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