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(...) I've been gathering green plates and bricks, I already have tons of yellow, and I'm going to design my own stickers. Hopefully I can find some BP logos somewhere to start with. -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) BP??? Where are you going to get the parts for that? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yah! And -- bing! -- now I think I *finally* understand the subtle point that TLG legal counsel was trying to explain to me when they asked me to change the name of my "Fibblesnork LEGO Backgrounds" page[1]: it shows pictures of 2x2 LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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Tom Stangl wrote in message <386FB1A1.542946B2@n...pe.com>... (...) I did that a couple of months ago, and It worked just fine. You have to be very careful about what phone you pick to buy, so it can be rebuilt with Lego. Look at the buttons for (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone]
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(...) Or a Dumpster made by um, uh.... somebody other than Toccoa Metal Technologies. Trademark dilution at work! (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Petro-chemicals. You need someone to make ABS. Octan-Polymeres ? Octan-Elastomers ? Ray (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone]
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(...) Huh? That's like saying you own a box of Kleenix made by Puffs. Or that you own a Hoover made by Black & Decker. --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) (URL) used the above link (Thanks Ben!) to get the thing apart. It was quite the ordeal! Ben's method looks painful but is actually the best. It does keep the motor together after your done. My design works great. I can short it over with the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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Sooner or later I'm going to try what I talked about in another thread - pulling the motor out of the shell, and adding in a capacitor and other circuits, so that the capacitor feeds non-stop 9V to lights or other circuits, while the "main" circuit (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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I'm working on it ;-) Plans are for building a black 4558 (AFTER I get a normal 4558), and working on hopper/cargo cars for my freight train. But right now I'm trying to plan out the industrial complex for the freight train - a warehouse, 3 oil/gas (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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