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Re: All Terrain Crane
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:18:54 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Jennifer Clark writes:
> Thanks Bob! Unfortunately there is the matter of creating instructions,
> which would be a Herculean task, and the price would be a lot more than you
> might think. There are two remote control units and eight motors; assuming
> you can get the motors cheaply, that is $330 already, not including cables.
> Then there are the lights, leadscrews, and the matter of a few thousand
> bricks - I guesstimate around 3000, but it could be more. And then there
> would have to be a something in it for myself, doing this is hard work :-)
> Of course Lego could do a similar kit more cheaply, but it would still be
> seriously expensive.
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> This is one of the great things about being an AFOL; you can build things
> that really are just not economically feasibile in the real world ;-)
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> Jennifer
OK fine - how about if you remove all the lighting, remote control and
motors so that it becomes 'just' a simple Model Team type of kit of around
3,000 bricks? Then would you do it? Please? I'd be willing to manually
extend the outriggers, crane arm and move it using human power!
- Bob
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| "Bob Parker" <cg47@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GyBxrI.CDw@lugnet.com... (...) :-) It is really to late in the day for a retrofit on this model, but one of these days I intend to make a model (probably a crane) that is manually controlled so (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: All Terrain Crane
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| "Bob Parker" <cg47@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GyBK5y.LGr@lugnet.com... (...) two! Thanks Bob! Unfortunately there is the matter of creating instructions, which would be a Herculean task, and the price would be a lot more than you might (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)
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