Sariel

Looking good!

Yes Eric, good points. Alternatively, I would consider adding extra support for the pivot on the outer side, to make it more rigid. With a 5 studs wide track, there should be enough room for some supporting structure that could be later covered by the side skirt. I won't be working on this design anytime soon because I'm building this instead:

Just an idea I've had for one of my projects but eventually decided not to use it because it looked wrong for this particular project. It works fine, though, so I'm sharing. It's pretty simple and may be obvious, but perhaps it will help someone.

I don't track my users in any way, but I appreciate the compliment, thank you :)

@Jurss I'm not allowed to clarify anything before the embargo date.

Things are a little messy when it comes to review embargo dates this year, but as far as I know the current dates are as follows: 42122 - December 4th, 15:00 CET 42116 - December 15th, 15:00 CET 42117 - December 15th, 15:00 CET 42118 - December 15th, 15:00 CET 42119 - December 15th, 15:00 CET 42124 - December 15th, 15:00 CET 42125 - December 15th, 15:00 CET 42123 - January 1st, 15:00 CET

You ought to relax more. Splitting the forum might be impractical, but using tags to mark that you're not ready for criticism? What's so terribly wrong with that?

Or how about you split the forum into "criticism allowed" and "criticism not allowed" sections? So the person posting can decide beforehand whether they accept criticism or not? Or to keep it simple use tags that would be visible to everyone, like #pleaseDontCriticize and #criticismAllowed?

@chekitch Don't worry about that, I put you on my non-facepalming list ;) Frankly, it's not the topics by beginners that are so jarring, it's usually posts from seasoned builders who suddenly do weird stuff or the inevitable 200-th remake of the "let's make LEGO fly" thread. We all started somewhere and nobody should disregard you just for being a beginner.

Sorry mate, can't see even the tiniest bit of logic in what you're trying to say here. For each person, there's a certain set of things that will trigger a facepalm-like reaction (here, perhaps you like this expression better). This has nothing to do with the specific subject of these things or with how that person views themselves. If my hobby is building with LEGO, I can still be triggered by how someone uses a spoon or drives a bicycle. I get that you're trying really, really hard to make me look like I suffer from some superiority complex but frankly, this is laughable and probably says more about you than about me. I'm just a builder like anyone else, and the fact that I - along with many other people, since you like this kind of putting things in perspective - feel outright depressed by some of the stuff I see here has way more to do with the general level of posts that pop up on EB than with how I see myself. What's next mr. psychologist, shall we talk about my relationship with my parents?

I like how you think you speak for all of EB. Let me know when you're officially the Vox Populi. I think it could still use a bit more unicorns and rainbows and fluffy bears and kittens. Seriously though, I have nothing but respect for you Jim but this puts pretty serious limitations on how people can express themselves, so the result is, not surprisingly, that they express themselves less and less. I have no right to tell you how to run your community, but maybe - and this is just a timid observation - maybe if the "adult fans" thing was enforced more effectively here, we would see fewer posts that cause severe facepalms and subsequently fewer or milder criticisms. I keep seeing spammy posts on EB, I keep seeing posts where the author can't post photos or use English, or just writes what he plans to build while not showing any actual building. But of course, this isn't the problem, the problem is when people don't sprinkle enough glitter on their opinions.

It's Technicism! ;)

You can't criticize on EB because then EB explodes. Trust me, I've tried. As for the number of MOCs, I have exactly opposite problem: a long list of ideas, over a dozen models in progress, just not enough time for building because of a full-time job, family and kid. My folder with ideas for MOCs is over 100 items long. At the same time the each single MOC takes longer to complete because of ever-increasing complexity, fancier building techniques, more specialized pieces and so on. Yesterday I've spent 4 hours just shaping my Abrams tank's rear end. 10 years ago I would have probably built most of the model in that time.

Yes, he does. He posts a link to the instructions at the end of the video.

As I have already explained, up to the point of publishing my video I've never come across these Chinese-made motors. Forgive me for not being so up-to-date with what the Chinese are copying at the moment as you gentlemen clearly are. It's certainly possible that for the purpose of making the prototype quickly and cheaply, a Chinese-made casing was used. BuWizz team clearly stated that they are going to use a different casing for the finished products.

I don't go to eBay looking for Chinese counterfeit c**p either, which is perhaps why I haven't found it there.

Sorry, I don't spend my days browsing shady Chinese online shops of stolen designs so up until yesterday I had no idea Chinese copies of these motors even existed.

BuWizz has been so kind as to send me a prototype unit of a high-powered motor they're working on. As you can see, the motor has the same form factor as the legendary LEGO RC buggy motor, except for the permanently attached PF cable. In my tests it proved between 4% and 13% faster than the LEGO RC buggy motor and accordingly more torque-y, and I was unable to trigger its overload protection to cut the power off (something that happens way too often with the LEGO motor). Full test:

@astyanax

Tired of having to buy these AAA batteries for your Powered Up trains again and again? I'm testing a possible solution here:

Not to nitpick, but driving on hexagons makes for a pretty bumpy ride even at low speeds. How do you expect them to perform at 50 mph?

The guy who wrote the second post in this topic is a Boeing engineer. If he says it can't be done, then it can't be done, end of story. Not to mention that your post sounds very theoretical, I mean no offense but what's your experience in building fast LEGO cars? Have you achieved at least half of your goal, that is 25 mph? And to answer your question: I don't know what wheels you mean by "mindstorms" wheels but really large LEGO bike wheels with 11.5 studs of diameter will require about 5,000 RPM to reach 50 mph. This might help in your future calculations: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.sariel.brickgearratiocalculator

So, how did my topic about a suspension design end up as part of this topic?

Alright, my bad. I'll update the instructions file.

Why would you ever trim axles? I sure as hell never did anything like that.