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Re: Beef about LEGO motors (rant)
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lugnet.technic
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Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:41:59 GMT
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You mean like the gear reduction unit in 872?
See http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0872-2/0872-04.html for
details.
You basically have a 4L axle bushing running across the block at the bottom,
and a 2L in the middle. Very useful thing to have...
Duq
"Mark Tarrabain" <markt@lynx.SPAMBLOCK.net> wrote in message
news:H4LqHB.DqM@lugnet.com...
> I've often wondered why it was that LEGO decided, when making their
> technic motors, to have them with such a ridiculously short axle that
> you almost ALWAYS will need to use an axle joiner to extend it. What
> would have made more sense (at least to me) is to not have an axle in
> them at all... instead, have something a lot like an axle bushing in
> them that you can plug in whatever axle length happens to best suit your
> design. If a short one will work, then you plunk in a short one, if you
> need a long one, then you use a longer one. Actually the biggest
> problem I have with using axle joiners on the motor's axle is that it
> seems like 9 times out of ten the place along the axle where I would
> have wanted to place some sort of gear mechanism is along the place
> _where_ the axle joiner happens to cover -- so I have to rethink my
> design, usually resulting in a model that is probably not as compact.
>
> Okay... I realize that this topic may be a bit pedantic, but I'm just
> wondering... is it just me? Or does this annoy other people as well?
>
> > > Mark
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| I've often wondered why it was that LEGO decided, when making their technic motors, to have them with such a ridiculously short axle that you almost ALWAYS will need to use an axle joiner to extend it. What would have made more sense (at least to (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.technic)
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