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Re: Suspension for supercar sized Hummer?
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 20 Oct 2001 03:22:52 GMT
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After Looking at it a second time I think that suspension will really work
great. It is a little hard to see exactly how it is built from the
pictures. Do you have a DAT you could post or e-mail me?
--
Michael Camilleri
"Thomas (T. J.) Avery" <thomas.avery@intec-hou.com> wrote in message
news:GLD6FM.B6x@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.technic, Michael Camilleri writes:
> > I meant the tires are too fat and balloon like for a realistic looking
> > Hummer.
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> Yep. I only wish that Lego made a tire that looks like the old 24x43's but
> is much larger in diameter.
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> What I would like to see is a tire the same diameter as the power • puller's,
> but "squared off" (like the silver champion's) and with deeper tread.
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> But we can only wish :-)
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> > The suspension looks fine except for the front axle only going through • one
> > piece. I think this gives too much wobble.
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> I agree. In that model I had the axle supported by a hole that was only 1
> full brick width deep. If you look closely, there's a white 1x3 link • behind
> that support piece. This link acted as a spacer (so that the u-joint pivot
> point was in-line with the steering pivot point) but wasn't tied to
> anything. If you can build it so that the 1x3 link is fixed to the • steering
> structure, you'll have a hole that is 1.5 brick widths long. That should
> give adequate support.
>
> TJ
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| (...) Yep. I only wish that Lego made a tire that looks like the old 24x43's but is much larger in diameter. What I would like to see is a tire the same diameter as the power puller's, but "squared off" (like the silver champion's) and with deeper (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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