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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:38E4EAB0.5358@m...ing.com... (...) Larry and other bricksmiths, If this is a hoax, I think you have found a new guildsman that could generate a ton of sales! Mike Poindexter (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) link tries to argue that it is not an April fool's joke in the link below. (If my German isn't completely rotten, that is! ;-) Check out yourself! (URL) least lugnet.trains isn't the only group to believe that it is a hoax! Fredrik (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If it is an April Fool's joke, then he might (I probably would in his place). I certainly wouldn't hate him or anything for this, if it is, in fact, his own hoax. I'd kinda admire him for being able too fool so many people for an April Fool's (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I won one of this guy's auctions of old bricks a few months ago. That's his real name and the hotmail address is the one he uses to do his auctions. I don't think that he would use all of his real info to pull a hoax on LUGNETers. Gloria. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Additionally, it looks like the jag in the left rail is due to the perspective on the picture of a regular piece of track resulting in a size difference when the track is shortened (it even seems like the jag may be a bit more pronounced on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Paul Rutenberg <paul_germany@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FsA9v1.9Cs@lugnet.com... (...) gtfthis is (...) The problem I have with believing this is that virtually all of our collective dreams appear to have come true: Digital control (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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Andreas Stabno <stabno@megsinet.net> wrote in message news:FsAv72.EDJ@lugnet.com... (...) automated (...) parts (...) the (...) from (...) connections? The outside rails are always live (while there's power being applied to the track) - the inner (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sure - since the specs are being set, a ClearanceCar can be defined. Anyone building a layout that doesn't allow it to clear gets a wedgie ;-) All you need are LWH, and pivot point distances from the ends for the center of the trucks, and each (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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There's something that has been bothering me with those pictures of automated points and I finally realized what it is. The power connectors to drive the switching motor are connected to both parts of the point. One is attached to the straight part (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) looks (...) I just blew these up in my image editor and can say with certainty that the three most obvious cuts are: 1) perpendicular (sp?) to the rail, and 2) in the exact same place for all three track parts!! Will (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ...lol... yea.. simple! :-) ...Chris, u have too much time on ur hands! :-) (...) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) #160 (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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You are both correct. Now, where's that shoehorn? I seem to have my foot stuck in my mouth :-) I still think his whole thing is a hoax. Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services www.crosswinds.net/~hokie (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's back again now. And I don't like the look of the mail address, too! But he has also put up a link to some old catalogue scans! (URL) haven't seen the first ones before, and they're great! Wether the original scans are a hoax or not (I (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) standard image processing techique(sorta) for change detection. It's used a lot in ecological and archaeological studies with a time series of aerial photographs. You can tell what has changed from time point to time point just by looking at (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So should the finger pointing start ... ? I point to ... : The Guild of Bricksmiths[tm], a “band of LEGO Fans who have become concerned at the dearth of high quality kits available and decided to do something about it”... -- pn ;) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) This could just be the set-up, with the obligatory "April Fool's!" comming tomorrow... Jeff (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Will Hess writes: <snip> (...) I am not an expert on either trains or any of this other stuff, but it looks to me that the spots that look like cuts may be "jaggies" introduced by a scanner. I have seen similar effects produced on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I find it quite a bit strange if someone went to _these_lengths_ to make an April fool's joke, and didn't even get the date correct! ;-) True, it may have been April 1st in New Zealand when it was posted, but certainly not in Germany! And why (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Plus ... a pack with only three track pieces in it? What is this ... "Train Polybags"? (...) Because if it wasn't for those annoying kids they would have gotten away with it! Let's give Jeff his Scooby Snacks:) I think they might have done it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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