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Re: Working four-finger gripper
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Date: 
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:51:38 GMT
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Here's another idea: The 8480 Technic Space Shuttle. This set is regarded • by
most Technic fans as the greatest Technic set ever. I don't own one, but
I've seen a parts list:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/8480
and it contains an excellent selection of parts.

Right now it's available from Lego shop at home as one of their • "specials":
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/lsahs/?n=162
I think you have to phone them to get it.

Also, set 8480 can sometimes be found for sale on Brickbay.

Thanks a bundle for the part tips! I'll have to check out Brickbay.

Were the parts for all those awesome trusses, etc. on your web site just
from lots and lots of sets, or were you able to find a source for beams,
etc.

Seems to me that Lego is missing a potentially lucrative market... The
popularity of the MindStorms with adults should have woken them up.

sim



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  Re: Working four-finger gripper
 
(...) Mostly from past sets. I've been getting Technic sets since the early eighties (well, it was Expert Builder back then :-) Back in the late eighties, I ordered a large amount of the "large black beams" service packs from Lego. That boosted my (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.technic)

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(...) Here's another idea: The 8480 Technic Space Shuttle. This set is regarded by most Technic fans as the greatest Technic set ever. I don't own one, but I've seen a parts list: (URL) it contains an excellent selection of parts. Right now it's (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.technic)

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