General Part Discussion

[aeh5040]

12 hours ago, R0Sch said:

 @SNIPE That part was on the EOL list for PaB parts and on clearance sale 50% off, so they won't restock that part ever. BL is your only hope. I too missed out on some Technic EOL parts that were 50% off in December, but the resellers quickly gulped up all the stock and now BL is full of them. Win-Win for TLG because they get money twice.

I had similar experiences, but I had not quite understood the explanation. Thanks for the this - it's good to know for the future!

11 hours ago, R0Sch said:

Here's a better look at the new Technic part used in combination with those new gear rack plates we saw in the Education sets:

https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/designs/015117963-0003
https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/designs/015117963-0002
https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/designs/015117963-0001

Very interesting info!

[Auroralampinen]

The new nike 43025 has transparent "banana" gear. Now you can build transparent 42055:).

[efferman]

On 2/24/2026 at 6:57 AM, Auroralampinen said:

If you have dreamed to have this unique piece. The new cada alpine one F1 set has got you covered:). 

The other new part in the alpine set is much mor usefull

[SNIPE]

6 hours ago, efferman said:

The other new part in the alpine set is much mor usefull

yeah I really want some Z beams but no axle holes, as there 1001 ways to mesh an axle to pinhole anyway, so all pinholes would be more useful, and 2L high instead of 3L 

[Paul B Technic]

8 hours ago, efferman said:

The other new part in the alpine set is much mor usefull

I could see some good use for both of these in some of my builds.

[msk6003]

I Finially got new curved gear rack in hand.

And did some experiment for use monorail.

This three combination is match rack gear with perfect backlash.

Left - Single 20t gear between two train wheel

Middle - Single 20t gear, two half bush, single round tile with hole between two reversed train wheel

Right - Single 16t gear between two 50951 tire with roller guard

This two is work but both has bad backlash. Espically left one is very poor.

Left - Single 12t gear between two 80441 wheelchair wheel

Right - Single 8t gear between two 1L beam

For maximum possible guide roller distance, If you use full thickness gear this is maximum.(By the way, 28t with that setup is work perfectly too.)

Without gear, this is maximum possible distance.

Edited Friday at 04:51 PM by msk6003

[Ngoc Nguyen]

Bent panel 135 degree, which first appears with print in the Ferrari FXX K, is now available without the print in the set 42226.

[SNIPE]

On 4/3/2026 at 5:50 PM, msk6003 said:

I Finially got new curved gear rack in hand.

Yeah, I hope we can make a better part than the holder/channel brick that pairs with the track. I tried but using mostly system pieces but it wouldn't have worked on the corner pieces.

I did use 4L gear racks to make shorter straight sections. They are half a plate higher than the monorail track pieces but the clutch es all  line up.

Otherwise we would have to lower the 4L gear strips by a half plate which is finicky. 

I would rather just use a gear than meshes with both heights 

technic parts should make it easier to build the gear holder + channel holder but allow it to work on corners (since studless technic is rounded).

By "channel" I mean the bits that are on both sides of the toothed section on the track.

The holder has to wrap around those edges

Edited 14 hours ago by SNIPE