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Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
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lugnet.technic
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Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:12:34 GMT
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I realize this thread is really old but I just got interested in it. I was
wondering how to download the instructions. I downloaded MLCAD which, as I
see it, needs .dat files and all I can get are .txt files. This is coming
from an extreme newbie but I could not figure out what the heck to do. Any
help that anyone can give me on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Tim
In lugnet.technic, Don Rogerson writes:
> I downloaded your .dat, Jeff and built one last night. Very cool. One thing for
> anyone else building it from the .dat - the gears that engage the shifter arm
> aren't shown in the .dat, but you can see them clearly in the photos on Jeff's
> page.
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> I put some wide wheels on mine, and tried it on the living room carpet (lots of
> friction). It shifted into low gear and took right off!
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>
> In lugnet.technic, Jeff Jahr writes:
> > In lugnet.technic, Jeff Jahr writes:
> > > I made a three speed, fully mechanical, automatic transmission a few weeks
> > > ago, and put a description of it on a web page. It uses a locking
> > > differential to select the gears, and I've not seen that done in lego
> > > before. If you are interested, the URL is:
> > >
> > > http://ichabod.last-outpost.com/~malakai/lego/index.html
> >
> > I've updated the page with some answers to the questions that I've been
> > asked, including the 'Is there an ldraw file somewhere' one. The answer to
> > that question is, yes, there is now. See the page for details.
> >
> > Thanks, everyone, for your responses!
> >
> > -jsj
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| The .dat parts files come from LDraw. The easiest solution is to install LDraw (www.ldraw.org ) per their instructions, then install MLCAD in the LDraw directory, per their suggestion. Tim Hall wrote: > I downloaded MLCAD which, as I >see it, needs (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
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| (...) Assuming you correctly installed LDRAW and MLCAD or other GUI and now you want to look at downloaded *.files (models) You're trying to download *.dat files from Lugnet database or somewhere else, I guess. If it's so, than, probably, your (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Mechanical Automatic Transmission
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| I downloaded your .dat, Jeff and built one last night. Very cool. One thing for anyone else building it from the .dat - the gears that engage the shifter arm aren't shown in the .dat, but you can see them clearly in the photos on Jeff's page. I put (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
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