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I picked up a couple of sets missing in my collection recently, and was wondering what the best way to remove the peeling stickers is. Trying to peel them off is very frustrating because they are cracked into a billion pieces. Afterwards I was planning on dumping all the (non metallic) pieces in a bathtub full of soapy warm water, if anyone knows of a better way please let me know. Also is there any way to restore discolored gray pieces is? One of the sets had everything on the side not visible in the auction very discolored. One last question, I'm looking at a listing for one of the RC cars (the kind with 2 buggy motors) and it mentions the steering unit makes weird noises, does that unit have a clutch gear which may be the source?

I thought someone was teasing earlier with a replacement for the 8288 crawler crane?

You can get adaptor cables directly from lego.

How much performance do you lose with the buggy motors when you power them with the PF receiver + batterybox instead of the normal buggy components? I;ve picked up two or three for 10 E each over the past months from ebay but the sets with the remote control and battery pack always are fairly expensive.

From what I found while searching for some a few months back, you can either get it from industrial supply companies for <1 E / meter, but need to buy at least 50 or 100 meters, or off ebay for 1.50-2.50 / meter

Planning on going on friday.

Wasn't the price MSRP 90 (or 99?) euros when it first came out? Nowadays I see it listed with a list price of 109 or 119. I bought it when it came out as my first studless supercar, and it really doesn't seem that great compared to more functional sets like the bulldozer/unimog/crane trucks.

I rarely finish my mocs, most of the time what I envision is so much better than the half done project I give up, or I get overwhelmed with work for a couple of months and start something new. Maybe someday when I have more time... PS: Technic for teh win

One from buch.de for 140 euros using a coupon they sent me in their newsletter, and one from amazon.de for 130.

Wish they would add a 50 or 100 pack of the new axles as well then.

Didn't someone ask for the prices via lego direct and find out they were asking 30$ or so each?

+1 roger rabbit

I picked one up a couple of months ago for a euro or two (fleamarket)

two motorcycle rims and an old (8421 style) battery pack in the wheel itself?

Working on building mine right now, I really wish the instructions would use "build this twice", "build thix x4", etc more often.

I'd suggest editing the OP, I almost closed the thread again because it said everything is sold.

Have you tried/thought about mounting the wheels of the cars in a V shape at the sides? so: \ / o o / \ to reduce friction?

I have 3 shoeboxes full, but want to figure out a better way because its annoying going through the piles, and they can slide around in there tearing off the covers. Maybe I'll try out the banker boxes mentioned earlier. Online versions quality sucks (Cant read the numbers), and I dont want to sit in front of my PC while building.

Ya tried to order a technic crawler for that insane price, got to fill in the address, and there was no way to choose the country.

Check german ebay for international sellers, 8448 and 8868 both regularly go for under 50 euros, havn't been watching the others much. (And I picked up the technic ferrari for 65 the other day, cant wait to rebuild it)

Never posted mine, this is what I came up with a year or so ago: Linked for size

You can get complete sets of S1 for 100-120 euros on ebay, don't know where you are getting 500$ from.

Got a 8264 in a sealed (damaged) box for 50 euros. Not the best deal, but I think I did ok.

Ok that explains it, guess my DNS server still is caching the old value, noticed it was down earlier today

15$ for one? Seems alot. Also do you have a link to the UK clearance page?