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In lugnet.general, Allan Portillo writes:
> I built this modle and I want to know what you think of it. It has 4 wheel
> drive, steering, live axles, a center differential, 2 inches of suspention
> travel, is fully motorised and has a 5 forward/1 revearse transmission of my
> own design ( the one in the 8448 was to weak ). I did not include diffs in
> the axles because it diminished its off-road performance ( especially when
> driving over / demolishing my 8880 super car ). Allthough it is easily
> heavey enougth to crush my 8880 it can climb a 60 degree slope in 3rd gear.
> To see the model, go to;
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7730.
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> It is called blue falcon. I am looking forward to your feedback
I saw this on Brickshelf earlier today and thought it looked pretty good.
It's nice to see a working 4x4. Well done.
Any dats or description of the drive/gearbox?
Martin
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| (...) The secret to a srong gearbox is to get all the gears completely in mesh with each other, not so the gears only just touch ( as seen in the gear boxes of the 8880 and the 8448 ). I no longer have the model assembled and I don't have any (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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