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Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off?
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
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Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:28:57 GMT
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"William Howard" <william@howard-family.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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> They make great booms for diggers and modern looking cab roofs I've found.
Indeed so! The corrugated tubes and new angle connectors, although
inflexible in angle, are also great looking.
> I'll get the photos/dat files up somewhere to show my interpretations of
> your 'compact excavator' and 'bobcat'. You can get much better clearance on
> the studless beams for parts that rotate (like the pneumatic cylinders) as
> you a) don't have the studs in the first place and b) if you do get some
> touching the parts tend to slide rather than stick.
That would be very interesting to see as I remember making part of the boom
linkage for the Bobcat and really wanting some studless beams as it would
have made things far easier. I didn't have any though so used standard
beams, which worked in the end, but studless ones would have been better.
> However, I'm very unhappy about the proliferation of these things and would
> hate for them to kill off the old style beams.
Quite, they are definitely still needed.
Jennifer
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