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Re: New angled beam
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Fri, 1 Oct 1999 16:29:41 GMT
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"Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
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> Johannes Keukelaar <johannes@nada.kth.se> writes:
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> > 8446 has both of these parts. It also has various other parts that were
> > new to me, at least, such as the big beveled gear which you mentioned
> > before, a holder for a worm gear, a dampened spring and a, erm, hmm.
> > It's like a bent beam with five holes, having one 90 degree bend at the
> > fourth hole. The first hole is cross-shaped, the others are round. There
> > are also some other new (?) parts which seem mostly decorative.
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> You're probably talking about the part which I called "Technic Liftarm
> 2x4 L-Shape" in LDraw:
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> http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/ldraw/32140.gif
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> This part appeared in the "connectable" Technic sets earlier this year.
> The 8444 Helicopter set has two of them in blue. They are very useful,
> and I think I would like to have some more of them.
True, that is the part I'm talking about. I don't have any of the
connectable sets. There is another part in 8446 which I didn't see
before, but which I suspect to be in the connectable sets. It's kinda
like two friction pegs side by side, and an axle hole in the middle. So
about 3 x 2, first column two horizontal halves of friction pegs, then a
column with a little plate with an axle hole, then a column with the
same friction peg halves. I'm guessing it's the piece that, well, makes
the connectables connectable.
> The decorative parts you talked about are probably taken from the Slizer
> / Throw-Bots series. The front light cluster holders and headrests from
> 8446 are really a Slizer feet. Further, the long decorative part on the
> side is used as a wing (among other things) on some of the Slizers. And
> the grabber is composed out of two Slizer heads.
As I thought. The heads really do look like heads a bit.
> I kinda like the new Slizer parts, although I admit that I haven't
> really got around to using them too much yet. But I like to see Technic
> parts which are decorative as well.
I must admit that some of the decorative pieces, like the plating that's
new for these new technic sets (that _is_ new, isn't it?) make for
easily achieved good looks. Still, the purist in me rebels.
> > Of course, it does also have six big Technic wheels, and, yes, I also
> > have more of those than I can use. :)
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> :-) I suppose that in the long run, it's a nice thing to have lots of
> wheels in different styles. But right now, I'm trying to avoid too many
> of them.
Yeah. My wheels box is getting rather full. I discovered that it isn't
too hard to build small technic models from the pictures in the
catalogs. However, I've mostly been buying big sets, so I have lots of
big wheels, almost no small ones. So I have lots of wheels, just not the
right ones.
> With six of the large wheels from 8446, one can make a robotic platform,
> as discussed by Leo Dorst on this page:
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> http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leo/lego/killough.html
Wow. Thanks for the tip. I'd seen that page before, but had forgotten
all about it. Hmm, let's see. I don't think I have enough of the
gearboxes, but I can probably work around that. What do you think the
discs in the wheel are for? I mean the ones that you can see in the
cross-section, that are attached to the axle going through the wheel?
Just decoration?
> Fredrik
Johannes.
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| (...) You're quite right about that part. I belive it has number 32139. (You can see the number molded into it if you study it carefully. (...) Perhaps you can do without the gear boxes if you use the new style geared motors? Anyway, gear boxes come (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) You're probably talking about the part which I called "Technic Liftarm 2x4 L-Shape" in LDraw: (URL) part appeared in the "connectable" Technic sets earlier this year. The 8444 Helicopter set has two of them in blue. They are very useful, and I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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