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Re: Part functionality questions
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:27:54 GMT
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"Ben Jackson" <ben@ben.com> wrote in message news:Fo8Iqz.1uC@lugnet.com...
> > 2) The technics gears service pack includes a dark grey 16T gear with a • smooth
> > ID (rotates on an axle) and a very small ridge of teeth on the top of the • gear
> > around the axle hole. What parts can mesh with the top ridge of teeth • other
> > than another gear of the same type?
[snip]
> LEGO tends to use that dark gray gear as an idler to connect a • differential.
> The best use I've ever seen of it is to drive a second clock hand (one of • the
> aforementioned plates). With a toothed bushing you can lock it to an axle • and
> it's a regular (but thicker and dark gray) 16t gear.
This gear is also very useful for making multispeed transmissions. The 8880
Supercar and 8480 Space Shuttle both use them this way. Before buying
either set I had played with making 2sp transmissions using this gear as
well.
alex
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| (...) What gear ratios does the Shuttle use? I guess there's main engines WITH SRBs and main engines alone. And after MECO you've got maneuvering jets... "Ahhh, Discovery Houston, we can't get the main engines into gear. Is this a standard H? Over." (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| This gear is also used in 8858 Rebel Wrecker to allow the axle that connects from the light on top of the cab to connect to the steering mechanism up front. The gear is used as part of the driveline from the motor to the rear differential on the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) If it's a service pack for the cyber challenge sets, then the rubber bands would be to replace all the rubber bands in the sets themselves. LEGO sure has gotten generous with those recently. Why, when *I* was a boy you were lucky to get one (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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