How many Technic tread links is too many?

[Blakbird]

Trick question. There is no such thing as too many.

[Siegfried]

Show off!

(I love treads too!)

[CP5670]

Have you measured the full length of those?

I like how treads have become a lot more common in the last three or four years. Before that, I remember the tread links (the smaller, black kind) could only be found be in a few sets and obscure service packs from the 1980s, and commanded sky high prices on Bricklink.

[Bundalings]

~Bunda

[Brickthing]

Answer: Once you get bored putting the treads together, you know you have too many.

[Legoman]

Answer: Once you get bored putting the treads together, you know you have too many.

So 2 is too many?

I would say there're never enough!

(AKA it depends on what your doing with them)

[Brickthus]

So 2 is too many?

I would say there're never enough!

(AKA it depends on what your doing with them)

I agree that you can never have too many:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=237939

Plenty of scope for expansion. As well as the circuit and 360-roll, I have a loop-the-loop in prototype.

On YouTube too: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mbellisbrickmocs

I've done a railway tunnel mouth and various hoops too.

Mark

[Bfahome]

DO want!

[Neaku]

I agree that you can never have too many:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=237939

Plenty of scope for expansion. As well as the circuit and 360-roll, I have a loop-the-loop in prototype.

On YouTube too: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mbellisbrickmocs

I've done a railway tunnel mouth and various hoops too.

Mark

I want treads THIS much more now.

[Skelotic]

Never enough due to the fact that I have none of that type.

Better Question:

How long will it take for Blakbird to reach 100 posts.

[JINZONINGEN73]

(AKA it depends on what your doing with them)

I'm sad. I only have 2 1/2 sets worth of the tiny, brown Hailfire droid ones. V__V

[Blakbird]

Never enough due to the fact that I have none of that type.

Better Question:

How long will it take for Blakbird to reach 100 posts.

That is indeed an intriguing question. Well, I just got one post closer.

[Front]

How does it feel not having any of the new black threads ?

I got quite some threads, but not close to your amount Blakbird. Let's see in a year or two.

Front

[Blakbird]

How does it feel not having any of the new black threads ?

I got quite some threads, but not close to your amount Blakbird. Let's see in a year or two.

I accept your challenge. Some black treads are on the way.

I have a couple of thousand treads now and I think my fingers hurt too much to get many more.

[Brickthing]

I accept your challenge. Some black treads are on the way.

I have a couple of thousand treads now and I think my fingers hurt too much to get many more.

Yes! That means my guess is coming close to being right!

That funny thing about this is that I've only got two of those pre-made rubber tread loops that came with an Artic snowmobile...

[optimus-convoy]

Oh wow, and I don't even have any of those.

At that rate, you could go for a world record: "Longest chain of Technic Tread links" I'm sure it's undiscovered territory.

[Ras_Al_Ghul]

holy sh*t i wish i had that many treads!! you wouldn't be interested in donating them to a worthy cause, would you?

[Blakbird]

holy sh*t i wish i had that many treads!! you wouldn't be interested in donating them to a worthy cause, would you?

It would have to be pretty worthy. And what could be more worthy than me?

[Dark Wanderer]

No number of Technic tread links is too many. I've got 176 of the new thick kind, and 86 of the older kind, along with uncounted numbers of chain links.

[Blakbird]

No number of Technic tread links is too many. I've got 176 of the new thick kind, and 86 of the older kind, along with uncounted numbers of chain links.

Your opinion might change when you get to triple digits!

[prateek]

Your opinion might change when you get to triple digits!

It looks like you have quadruple digit

[Natman8000]

I really like these treads but they are so hard to acquire for me. How did you get so many?

[Blakbird]

I really like these treads but they are so hard to acquire for me. How did you get so many?

I have several thousand. Many came with original sets, but the bulk of them were acquired individually on Bricklink, some from as far away as Australia.

[Natman8000]

I have several thousand. Many came with original sets, but the bulk of them were acquired individually on Bricklink, some from as far away as Australia.

Yes, the problem is that they really add up in price. The average is now about 13 cents per link.

[CP5670]

You can get the new kind relatively cheaply in a Lego Education service pack. The only problem there is that they come in both dark blay and black in the same package, so it becomes harder to use them all on one vehicle. It would have been better if they offered two separate packs of them in different colors.

Edited March 16, 2009 by CP5670