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Re: Round parts on the side of ... (was Re: LEGO SW Haildire Droid will cost....
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Mon, 6 Jan 2003 05:14:40 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Stefan Garcia writes:
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.

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 that rotatable thing, building a carrier that it rotates in
and devising a mechanism to get it to rotate are secondary problems. Vastly
secondary.



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  Re: Round parts on the side of ... (was Re: LEGO SW Haildire Droid will cost....
 
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Round parts on the side of ... (was Re: LEGO SW Haildire Droid will cost....
 
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- (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)

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