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Re: Minifig Segway
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lugnet.town
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Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:26:27 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Daniel Patten wrote:
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I’ve been thinking of the possibility of rigidly connecting two Segways
front-to-back to make what would be, for practical purposes, a four-wheel
vehicle, but I hadn’t previously thought of the trouble that rubber tires
would have in turns. Could you point me to that hard-plastic one you
mentioned?
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Sure, this is the new wide rubber tire that you regularly see on town vehicles
these days:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6015
This should be the exact same style, but made entirely from plastic (and there’s
also a thin ridge running down the center of the tread):
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/41864
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I also like that train-car idea. I might have to try it sometime.
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Well, it’s not a low-hassle design, just so you know. The cars do regularly
decouple from the boom-magnets, and getting them to pick up the connection again
is a huge challenge. I tried it once when they went awry and Steve wasn’t
around at the time to fix it, and all I remember succeeding in doing was
decoupling one more car than there had been before.
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| (...) OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind. I think the plastic wheels are little too big for my Segway, but if I ever get a hold of some, I can use them and call it an off-road version; just the thing for the commuter who wants to pretend he's (...) (15 years ago, 15-Aug-09, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) I see I neglected to mention that I'd already considered much of what you said, and that I was going to leave the nitty-gritty figuring-out to someone else. : ) I appreciate your insight, though. I've been thinking of the possibility of (...) (15 years ago, 22-Jul-09, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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