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(...) That is true. However, Sean was also right about the steering issue. You want the front wheels to pivot about their centerline, so the steering mechanism must be *inside* the wheel. Go look at your car's front wheels if you don't believe me... (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) If the truck has 'duallies' in back, what is often done is that only one wheel type is used. The wheel is dished so that when two wheels are put back to back, the wheel centers are adjacent (and the plane between the two tyres). Then that's (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Well, I've noticed that most trucks and busses have a slightly different type of hub on their front wheels. I'm not sure why, perhaps it has to do with steering. (Any die-hard truck guys out there know why?) The hub on rear wheels is usually (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) No, not really. They're mostly built to compare with my 4-wide cars. (I have some taxicabs and other city vehicles.) I'm worried that they'll look out-of-scale with my buildings, since the busses are almost a full baseplate long. (I think (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.town)
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| | Space Marines - the future of galactic law enforcement
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Hi all, I've had these guys around for quite some time. May I present the Space Marines. (URL) have three marines with key weapons - automatic handguns, chaingun, baton, and laser cannon (the one pointed at you :-) There are construction pics for (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.town)
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