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New Parts —John Barnes

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sometimes wishes for certain parts that TLC don't make .... yet. So, in hopes that it might inspire some Lego design engineer somewhere to go ahead and just make a few, I've decided to maintain a list of such items (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Including non Technic?? Me, I've always pined for an easy way to reverse stud polarity. The Megablocks double sided (studs on both sides) plate is a great way to do it in minimal thickness. (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Barnes

:) How thick would the center section need to be - one plate (1/3 brick)? Zero is hard - it'd be just a handful of little double length studs ;) So assuming you want some plate thinckness pieces, what size and color and how many do you need? JB (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —Ralph Hempel

A quick hack might be to just glue the exisiting plate parts back to back. That gets you a two-plate stud reverser. The other route is to eliminate the ridge at the bottom of the two plates before you glue them together. I THINK this leaves enough (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Glue?? Ewwww.... (...) Not that there's anything WRONG with that! I THOUGHT I saw milling machine marks. :-) John, you should have posted something about some obscure set you found with these nifty new parts in them (after brassoing the marks (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Barnes

:) (...) Yeah, I was going to try that, it's no coincidence that this is April 1 ;) But I didn't have time to polish them last night, and that darn digital camera takes much too detailed pictures! So I bailed on the whole "anyone know what set these (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

An "inverted tile" please - ie one with studs on the top and filled in on the bottom (so I can add "skid pans" to the bottom of vehicles. Black and dark grey (at least but I can also think of reasons for all the other colours that standard tiles (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Ross Crawford

(...) How about (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

(...) robots when I can't be bothered to put in idler wheels - would be better though if you could get some that were flat (and different sizes) not domed, as you can't make nice large areas by abutting them. (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Actually not a bad idea! The (misnamed in my view) light grey "technic 1 1/2 pin" *almost* fills the bill, it almost fits inside a brick bottom, except for it's shoulder But plate thickness is fine. That's what THEY did in theirs. (...) Size? (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Richard Marchetti

(...) Pardon the intrusion on this dead thread, but... I have a small reference image about this kind of element here: (URL) Hop-Frog (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

7U axles!!! -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of John Barnes Sent: 01 April 2002 12:41 To: lugnet.technic@lugnet.com Subject: New Parts I'm sure I'm not the only one who sometimes (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) Most times an #4 connected with a #3 or a #5 and #2 works but it could be nice sometimes, yes. /Tobbe (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

I agree - but then ... Check out my variation of Jennifer's Bobcat at (URL) and if you look closely at "...squeeze.jpg" you'll see that the rear axle on the left protrudes slightly - that's because it really needs to be a 7U one - The same is also (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) I said "most times" :) I guess you can't put an half bushing between the frame and wheel thus making the drive axles one stud wider in total, the axles could meet half-way in the beams. (...) Personally I'd cut a #10 since I own more of these (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

(...) Its already there, as ... (...) ... they already do! Been there, done that! :-) William (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Jason S. Mantor

John, Nice machining job on the internal gear brick. Can we get one big enough to make planetary sets with ? And while we're at it how 'bout a planetary carier ? -Xanthra47 PS. Only sorta' kidding : ) John Barnes <barnes@sensors.com> wrote in (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Barnes

It's already big enough. Check out (URL) and 146081. You forced me to publish. They are only the prototype carriers, but they work ;) JB (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Ross Crawford

(...) That's really great, John! Now all we need is a round profile anulus, and some way to connect it neatly to the previous ring, and we can make a "daisy chain" gearbox! ROSCO (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Jason S. Mantor

We don't even need that. Two of John's Internal gear bricks, two carriers, some pinions and some axels are enough for a two stage planetary set. Drive the first stage "sun" with a pinion on a technic gear motor, connect the output of the 1st carrier (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Ross Crawford

I was thinking along the lines of the old planetary gearboxes where different gear ratios could be selected by applying a brake to the appropriate anulus. ROSCO "Xanthra47" <jmantor@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message news:GtxCHy.CyG@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Jason S. Mantor

You are right. That would be cool ! Ross Crawford <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:GtxDzw.Gp6@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Jason S. Mantor

I was hoping you had done that : ) Very Slick ! I'm confused by your pics, though. Why are two of the four axles for the planet gears fixed to the carrier such that they can't rotate ? -Xanthra47 PS. You're gonna sell these, right ? I'll take at (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Barnes

There are two different "carrier disks". One has a center round hole, the other a center cross axle hole. They both have a pair of cross axle holes and pair of round holes around the outside. The cross axle holes are used to pin the two disks (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Ross Crawford

(...) 1x3, 1x5 technic beams with studs, with 2 or 3, 4 or 5 holes. 1/2 stud Pulley like 4185, but smaller, with round hole. A nice big winding drum, like 2585, but technic-scale (I just noticed the other day that 2585 has ridges through the middle (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

Now two parts I *would* pay for A black friction version of the 3/4 dark grey pin. If you attach a half width studless beam/liftarm to a full width beam with two of the dark grey ones it more often than not wobbles too much - I want a nice tight (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Barnes

This is any easy one, the only tool you need is a pair of little electronics type diagonal cutters like Radio Shack sell for about $5 I think - red plastic coated handles made from die cut sheet metal. You can use them to nip the ridge off from (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

Ah, but you were asking for parts we want not fudges we can achieve! I want the ridge intact in the correct place! I can make 7U axles as well! William -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Thomas Avery

(...) Why? The modification (i.e. the "fudged" part) works as desired and I'm definitely going to try it (thanks John). I don't have a Lego purist attitude (i.e. "I won't play with any part unless it's just as Lego made it") and I'm not going to (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) If you press a piece that fits a minifig's hand inside the 3/4 pin it becomes slightly less "wobbly". Seems to work better with other pins though. (...) This would come in handy, if there is room I tend to use a #3 axle and two half bushings (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

(...) To (...) This would come in handy, if there is room I tend to use a #3 axle and two half bushings but it's not always possible. And quite often unsightly, especially on digger/excavator boom arms. William (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Brian Sadowski

I never thought of it..but a friction version of the dark grey pin is an awsome idea. I find when building with straight liftarms, its very hard to create solid connections. The liftarms dont contain studs or axle holes in which to make them (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) I remembered the 1/2 pin today, I usually attach the half beams with a mixture of 3/4 and 1/2 pins. Makes them fit better. /Tobbe (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) Now we all know :) What about 32012 Technic Reel 3 x 2? (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

It's not fair —Steven Lane

(...) posted that same idea first. And you got it in the wrong thread :) All my Motec votes will now go mysteriously missing :) Just having some fun :) Steve (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: It's not fair —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) 1) What is a roofer? *remembers dictionary.com* "One who lays or repairs roofs." Hm, you had a roofer come to visit or did you have to fix what a roofer failed to fix? 2) What wrong thread? (...) What votes? I can't see any votes for Steve (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: It's not fair —Steven Lane

(...) There are various stratergy's a dodgy roofer might employ. He may try and charge for you fixing somthing he broke himself. or for somthing that isn't broke that he hasn't actually fixed. or for somthing that was broke but that he hasn't fixed. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Mark Haye

I've occasionally wished for a 7x7, 56-tooth gear (same size as the outside of the large turntable). I know others have taken turntables apart to use them as gears (I think I saw this usage in a clock mechanism). In fact, I'd buy several (say 10 or (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Robin Malton

April Fools aside and at the risk of offending purists I've started cutting up the 32173 Technic Liftarm 2 x 7 with 2 Ball Joints Cutting off the fake rams and the one ball joint which is off at an angle leaves a ball joint with a two hole beam (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Barnes

Yeah, Roboslizonicles are a great source of supply of "raw" material ;) The part you describe yields a ball with a short length of cross axle attached from the other end when you chop it up as well. With some of these highly specialised parts, I try (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Geoffrey Hyde

How about the special right-angle skew gears (IIRC that's the proper name for them.) that are commonly used for the connection from the crankshaft to the distributor cap in most petrol-driven engines? Modern electronic engine management technologies (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Thomas Avery

Well, I guess I'll jump in now and present my list of wants: A decent socket for the towballs. I think the towball is an under-utilized part because there's a lack of decent parts with socket receptacles. For example, take the end of this part: (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —William Howard

(...) Why? Couldn't you just cut the end off 1x4 and 1x6 beams? Seems like you're not applying the same logic as for my request for the pins? But who cares? This is just for fun / light entertainment isn't it :-) William PS And the answer to "Why?" (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Ross Crawford

(...) My favourite answer to "Why?" is "Why not?" ROSCO (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —William R. Ward

(...) ....CUT?!?!?! Cut LEGO??!?! *swoon* --Bill, purist. (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Thomas Avery

(...) Of course you could just cut up larger beams. The same goes for a 1x2 studless beam (see my list). I'd certainly like Lego to make these parts, it saves me the time of doing it myself. But in the meantime, I'll be chopping, cutting, grinding, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Guerquin

(...) Very impressive machining job on those parts John!!! I'm guessing you're using a CNC machine (computer numerical control), but I'm wondering what size the machine is? To machine plastic at a small scale you don't need much power, so I'm (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Barnes

Just in case anyone is interested, The little machine is a desktop milling machine supplied by Microproto. They buy the basic mill from Taig and add all the motors, controllers and software. I am buying sheet stock ABS and ABS/PVC from McMaster, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Erik Olson

(...) Hey, wow, are you really pleased with the Taig? How's the precision? Microproto advertises .0005 repeatability now. Other makers of micro-mills are Roland, Light Machines, Emco-Mayer, Enco, but I am not aware of one as inexpensive and (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Erik Olson

(...) By the way, I spoke to a Roland salesman. Although their machines have the nice digitizing features, they don't have anything in the price/performance range that Taig addresses. (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —John Barnes

Well, my little TAIG based machine is now doing production work hollowing out bricks and assemblies of various different sizes. I did a batch of 120 bricks the other night. It would have taken me a week on my manually operated mill. Brick hollowing (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —Bram Lambrecht

(...) Wow, the specs for the Microproto look much better than the training machines we use in my CNC class here at school. I think they're Enco...not sure. Anyway, their max RPM is 2000, which means that parts take forever to mill, and we can only (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Erik Olson

Bram, how are you going to do the corners inside the box? Tricky, huh? (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

RE: New Parts —Bram Lambrecht

(...) Yes, it sure is. Since the 1/16" end mill is so incredibly slow, I had to make some design modifications to the 2x4 brick so that it could be entirely milled using a 1/8" mill. The mods include corner radiuses and partial tubes...but hopefully (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Ross Crawford

(...) Has anyone tried making an adapter for the LoM air pump ((URL) to feed into the pneumatic hose? ROSCO (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Chris Daniel

Hi, Impressive work! I would like lego to manufacture a motor similar to the 2 supplied with mindstorms, but which utilizes a female conection with the axels apposed to the curent male setup. This is a picture of a conector I wish was in exsistence. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Simon Bennett

(...) Here's the list I made of replies I got when I started a similar discussion last year: 1/2 connector (i.e a lift arm width pin on each side of the central flange) 3L lift arm 3L lift arm with axle hole in the centre 4L lift arm 5L lift arm (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Thomas Avery

(...) I've thought of another part: curved beams. Take a beam (traditional or studless) and bend it about an axis perpendicular to its length. For example, you could have two different radii so that curved train track could be supported under both (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

Re: New Parts —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) <<snip>> (...) Could that be achieved with the 1 x 4 rack and some hinges? Of course it wont be perfectly round but perhaps the racks could be mounted with a center pivot point so that they connect with the gear never the less? Would probably (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)