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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message <snip> (...) Do you mean the parts the red arrows in this picture: (URL) pointing to? They look like technic non-studded angled beams to me. (...) Yup them's the part. -- Thanx~ Nicole (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) No, I mean the thing they are clasping. Really, it's round, it's dark grey, it's the biggest part in the model. It has what appear to be ridges or gear teeth on its outside circumference. (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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I think it has teeth like those found on the bionicle double-bevel gears. Might mesh, though I don't see any obvious connection points for anything else like technic pins or rods. -Stefan- (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:H89nsn.1rI@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) up (...) Oh! The actual "wheels" themselves? -- Thanx~ Nicole Drumm MS (URL) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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"Stefan Garcia" <sastrei@netscape.net> wrote in message news:H89p1z.5Bt@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> I think you are right Stefan. As for inside, yes it looks like there might be gear teeth in there. -- Thanx~ Nicole Drumm MS (URL) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Here is what I've calculated on this new component "gear wheel" (my calculations could be MILES off of correct, mind you): -Teeth count is approximately 96 on the outside. -Outside diameter is 24 studs -Inside diameter is 20 studs -The strip running (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If it's round and made out of LEGO, it doesn't matter if the gear teeth mesh or not. The big problem with rotary dumps till now has been what is it that you rotate? till now nothing has been both large enough and round enough. Once you have (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) personaly i dont think they will be large enough to build a rotary. this is mainly because the center point of the rotation gear is also in the same position as the couplers. this is at least in modern rotary dumps. a good solution might be to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Right. Has to be else you have to decouple. However if the guestimated height someone posted elsewhere in the thread is correct it will be plenty high for 6 wide trains. 8 widers might be out of luck though. (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If the circle ends up being a bit too small to center the couplers, couldn't you build a different hopper that has the couplers a brick or two higher? Sure, it would only work with other hoppers with the same coupler design, but most of the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Definitely. I bet you could even find a prototype for it somewhere if you hunted hard enough. Perhaps body mounted rather than truck mounted would be necessary to avoid somewhat silly looking trucks, though. (...) Yep. They're called unit (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Hey all, While browsing Brickshelf recently I happened to fall upon a folder with detailed photos of the new Hailfire Droid.(URL) Along with the other photos Simon Bennett was kind enough to photograph the new rotation gear against a baseplate. (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.starwars)
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