mdoupe

woops, disregard!

Toys R Us Canada Nov. 19th - Nov. 25th 20% off Creator 20% off a couple Farm and Fire City Sets 15% off Pirate Zellers Nov. 19th - Nov. 25th BOGO 1/2 price on all lego

Sears Canada has Sales on a bunch of sets including: Atlantis, Toy story, Creator, City and Games (including creationary, if you've been holding out.. it's a lot of fun :) ) http://www.sears.ca/catalog/lego/1100200-100000056

Sears Canada's website has a bunch of Star Wars and a couple City on sale. http://www.sears.ca/catalog/lego/1100200-100000056

Prince of Persia, Creator, Atlantis and something else on sale at TRU Canada.

I've never seen one like it. A google image search for "mailbox" turned up a picture very similar to the creationary card... But not on page 1. :) Thanks!

So, I was playing creationary with my family tonight, and one of us pulled a card that had all of us completely stumped. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mdoupe/Misc/lego_card.jpg our guesses were a jewelry box, a bread box or a mail box. Is this a european thing?

sold out. :P

I did look at a couple of the instructions (the trucks) but it didn't help much, I already had the basic concept down. Maybe I will take a look at the ferarri's or something though. as I mentioned, raising it or lowering it by even half a stud throws it even further off. it's very very close as is. (it's drivable, just not perfect) They are the same. since they overlap: The arms are 6.5L, attached to a 5L liftarm 6.5 + 3 (5 overlapped on both sides) + 6.5 = 16 The links are 6L, attached to a 6L liftarm 6 + 4 (6 overlapped on both sides) + 6 = 16 also, the red line goes directly through the pivot point. it's hard to tell as the pic is crappy. I'm not 100% sure I understood that, but I take that to mean that the link has to "line up" with the steering arms, which I made sure of. Here's another (higher resolution) pic of the design mounted in my truck: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mdoupe/Misc/img_1770.jpg It looks a little odd because I'm out of battery, and had to pull the tire aside, but it does line up. Thank you for the replies! I'm quite new here, having just come out of my dark age a little while ago, and I wasn't very much into technic when I was a kid (they didn't even have liftarms or bevel gears back then! :P)

Hi guys, I'm having an issue trying to build steering with "Technic, Steering Gear with 4 Ball Joints" (http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=x873c01&in=S) The base is 5L across and uses 6.5L steering arms. The steering mechanism uses 2x 6L thin liftarms with 6L links. The problem I'm having is that any "legal" method I use ends up with the wheels at a slight angle. if I move the rack up or down by even 1/2, it throws the steering off even more. Can anyone suggest any fixes for this? Here's a link to what I have: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mdoupe/Misc/crooked.jpg

it will be a lot nicer once I buy a house. :)

These are all from canada: I had a very positive experience with NEDS LOWEST PRICES. I live in the same town, so I picked up locally. we talked lego for about an hour (!) while he searched for the missing bag he had packed up for me (it turned out his toddler had toddled off with it). He was VERY friendly, and gave me a free spongebob minifig for my fiance. :) RAPIDOS2 was very fast with my order, although a lot of the stuff was quite expensive. It starts with a brick - I ordered a couple sets from him (in addition to some parts) and everything was there. I didn't realise that two of the sets were different, so I thought it had the wrong pieces in it. I sent him a mail that he might want to check the contents of the unbuilt sets, and he gave me a 5% coupon.... and then I realised my error and mailed him back, but he let me keep the 5% coupon anyway. :D very patient in the face of false accusations. ;)

I've just recently come out of my dark age and luckily my parents kept all my Lego, so I had a nice start! All of my bricks were sorted into margarine dishes and shoe boxes but they were all pretty bent and battered. I got some clear plastic containers about the size of a shoebox from the dollar store and they stack very nicely, even when there's stuff in them. For now my collection needs to be semi-mobile, as we're in an apartment and my fiance uses the living room for work purposes once or twice per week. All of the boxes stack up well with each other into a large cardboard box that gets hidden away. Soon we will have a house, and I will have a basement to do what I want with! Here are a couple pics. The first is where I do my building. it's not the most efficient, and I've dropped a few pieces that are probably under the couch now. :) The second spreads straight out from my computer desk, so that I'm no more than a few steps away from any given part.

TRU Canada website now lists these as "In Stock" at $250. if only I hadn't blown that much at BL recently.

I've been waiting 5 days for a BL order to come from BC to Alberta. :P

nah, I installed ldraw, the pieces, and unofficial pieces from individual downloads.

woops, didn't see there was a cad forum.

Hi all, I'm getting a little frustrated trying to load and view some of the more complex LDraw files.. here are the steps I've taken: -I've installed ldraw with both official and unofficial parts to c:\ldraw -ran mklist -installed mlcad, the first time it complained that it was missing a whole bunch of part files, so I reinstalled everything, and now it seems to only be missing ls40, ls70, etc. which I believe are lsynth files, so I'm not too concerned.. -when I export as images with mlcad, in the case of Jurgen's excellent yellow and red cars, around the middle somewhere it adds the entire front 1/3 of the vehicle in one step, and the instructions for building it are in a (much) later step. -when I use LDview, it does the same thing, only it doesn't even add the front bumper in as extra steps later. -when I use LPub, it complains about the lsxx.dat files being missing AND part 32123, which I can't find any reference to anywhere. -when I use leocad, even more pieces are missing, ie. the remote, rear wheels, etc. does anyone have any recommendations for what I may be doing wrong?

I'm the one that started this thread with the dumb question, so take my opinions with a grain of salt. ;) it seems to me XL motors may be more useful for heavy lifting/torque applications such as large, heavy trial trucks where speed is not as much of an issue as getting over something without getting stuck. :) M almost seems to be suited to drive for lighter vehicles, in addition to the steering that everyone else uses it for. the buggy motor is very fast, but at the same low torque as the M motor. I'm betting it's an excellent RC motor until your vehicle gets too heavy. I don't believe it's noted here, but if you combine the buggy motor and the rechargable Power Functions battery (8878), and the Buggy motor stalls, the battery pack will go into "safe" mode, and won't turn on until you plug it into the wall. I don't think this is an issue with the AA PF battery pack. also, if you get the whole RC set, it comes with a remote, battery pack, and steering motor (I'm not sure if this includes RTC)

I will keep this in mind, thanks! I had read philo's page. it just didn't make much sense to me that the motor that theoretically delivers 2.9Ncm of torque to the axle couldn't drive a simple frame as fast as one that delivers 2.18Ncm at fewer RPM's to the same axle, all other factors kept the same.

So if I'm going for speed should I pick up a buggy motor or two?

Hi guys. I've been reading a lot over the last weeks, catching up on the lego world. One of the things that sparked my interest was RC type stuff. So to add to my collection I bought a bunch of PF stuff, but ordered 2 XL's and one M motor, as I had read that M's are good for steering, and XL's are good for drive (as M's don't suck as much power while stalled) building up my first car, I mainly wanted to go for speed, so I tried various configs using one and both XL motors, but I just couldn't get it to go very fast on carpet (the majority of the floor in my apartment :P ) for giggles, I tried using the M motor for drive, and it was MUCH MUCH faster than the XL. I know what you're thinking, they have different RPM and Torque, but using both Sariel's calc and Nico's TTools, I came up with: XL - 40:8, giving 500rpm and 2.9 Ncm vs. M - 20:12, giving 308.4rpm and 2.18 Ncm to make absolutely sure it wasn't a weight issue, I bolted both XL's on as dead weight with the M as the drive motor and it was STILL faster. So am I missing something with these two motors, or should I just pick up a couple more M's if I'm going for speed? In the pic: I messed up the angle, but there's an XL motor behind the 40t -- not attached to the chassis, just for visualization.