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Since I have no universal joints at my disposal, and there are currently no reasonably priced sets that I know of that use them, I would like to know if anybody has come up with a way to build one. I have never seen one first hand, but I do know (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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While this isnt a solution for building ujoints, can you shop at pitscodacta? if so , in the spare parts they list 25 ujoints for 10 bucks... (URL) Hopefully this link will work but if it doesn't this is the link to the Pitsco dacta page and look in (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Greg, Building a u-joint probably can be done, although I've never really tried. The problem will be that whatever assembly is built will be large and bulky (as compared to the original Lego-made u-joint). The home-built one will be hard to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Okay, I've tried now. You've captured my interest and I wanted to see how I could do it. Take a look at 3 ideas: (URL) I spectulated before, the home-made joints are bulky and it will be hard to incorporate them into a nice, neat, compact (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Very nice work! If you think the ones you've created are bulky, check out the way TLC created them 16 years ago: (URL) David (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Cool! Thanks for giving me something to work with. greg (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Could you connect a 4-way znap connector between 2 axles somehow? It just looks so simular to the center piece... NICK (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) but they're more common I think. I got mine in a Droid Developer Kit and a Znap kit. George (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well, I dunno. I'm not very familiar with znap parts. If the piece you're talking about will allow you to connect axles or pins perpendicular to each other and in the same plane, then the znap piece should work. I'm sure you could just replace (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Hey Greg, one year while I was a Resident Artist at the Local Science Center, Lego had a big display and one of the exhibits was a U-joint made from Technic beams ,Bricks and pins. The whole asymbly was about the size of a Half Hero Sandwich. So (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Whoa! that's veery neat! Hmmm...mmm (ideas start churnning) Good one!!!! Also I checked out your site, That Crane is off the hook!!!!! I like it!!!! Right on Technic brother! Eric (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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Holy Moly that pix is old!!!! Good detective work!!! (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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