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  1. bonox
    Indeed - this has potential far beyond this thread and model :)
  2. bonox
    actually the input says 9-12 volt, so you can provide 12V input if you want to (from a wall transformer for example).
  3. bonox
    The man sure has good skills! Looking forward to this one Lox/Thorsten. Thankyou both for your talents.
  4. bonox
    Nice engine/pump house. I would suggest that you have very little motion compared to many GBCs and the speeds of rotation are quite low. At 10 seconds run per flick of a switch, i would be very surprised if it didn't last 6 months, even without lubrication. even at 60 requests per day and 5 days a week, you're looking at a total run-time of 21 hours over the six months, which isn't that hard for a GBC to rack up in a weekend at a show, and this isn't very stressful motion.
  5. bonox
    Thanks for that effort. It's fascinating. Are they similar batches, or years apart? (ie before and after the dye injection process instead of coloured pellets?)
  6. bonox
    you can get that piece and have it chromed for about a quarter of the old style one!
  7. bonox
    Amazing to see what people manage to do in small spaces to support their hobbies :)
  8. bonox
    soak in a bucket with dishwashing soap, scrub with toothbrush if you need to move tough dirt. Rinse when done and dry in the sun. Old ones will probably never look like new, but close enough. You'll never get gloss back again.
  9. bonox
    A brilliant interpretation Kalais, and a wonderful story to go with it.
  10. bonox
    I would suggest that agrof's "video is mandatory" is a bit tongue in cheek. What they are trying to say is that they really want to see movement and demonstration of how your model works
  11. bonox
    All lego can fly, even if you just throw bricks across the room. That's the same principle as a glider - only the lift/drag characteristics are different. This keeps coming back to the self powered and controlled definition isn't it? And the argument there is that the "self powered and controlled" bit does not involve lego. The rolls royce flying bedstead is proof that with enough power, anything will fly. Same probably goes for jetpacks the delightfully nutty inventors have been trying to develop for a while :)
  12. bonox
    awesome display of building commitment.
  13. bonox
    lovely model Sheo. You have a talent for beautiful engineering :) I knew we'd been here before though: https://youtu.be/ZIGTzkKVstI?t=27
  14. bonox
    We used to run the drive tyres on them backwards. You got much better wear on the road transport sections between farms and if the field was a bit boggy and you got stuck, you could usually get your self out backwards. Mounting them correct way around means that when you get stuck, you really get stuck. They look good, but I think I prefer the power puller tyres.
  15. bonox
    That grill and the rear doors backing into the wheel arches really looks like the real thing :)
  16. bonox
    No. The problem is the Chinese are not taking the idea of modular parts and creating new designs using those parts. They're copying everything from the parts (many of which are legal since the patents expired long ago) but the instructions, the designs and the artwork (part of what you call marketing) and then deliberately trying to portray the result as genuine lego while being slightly different enough to give a lawyer something to think about. Megabloks for example produces their own parts that are compatible with lego, but they're not stealing the designs, instructions and artwork, which is why we don't have a problem with them like we do with the direct knockoffs. Saying that the issue is marketing and the cost is too high is irrelevant. Do you expect Rolex to produce a $5 copy of their watches just because everyone can't afford them? If not, do you expect some Chinese company to make and market a $5 copy of it just so you can get one? That's like saying I should be responsive to changing interest rates on my home loan and start stealing money from banks to pay for my house!
  17. bonox
    Impressive. On Jeroen's comment about needing tracks, you see the real ones yawing side to side in the tracks like this thing (but this one is obviously unconstrained).
  18. bonox
    dum da dum, da da dum
  19. bonox
    I think the biggest legacy will be parts working their way through BL. Sure, there is impact on some people related to individual MOCs etc being ripped off, but the incidence of getting knockoff parts in orders is likely to affect vastly more people as the prevalence of cheap copied parts keeps rising. Perhaps you could investigate subtle but obvious watermarking of all videos, pictures and instructions that you release.
  20. bonox
    haha - EB really does unite LEGO fans around the world
  21. bonox
    some lovely designs in there. A lot of skipping gear teeth though :) He likes to build as big as Lucio! I'd love to see a bit more of the green tractor
  22. bonox
    I get the impression from the sellers website on the page called "free lego" that he encourages AFOLs to sort huge bulk lots for him under the arrangement that they get to keep 10% of the stuff they sort. That's not exactly sponsorship or dodgy action for Falconer to say that he's been associated with this seller and that everything seems legitimate.
  23. bonox
    User 1974 has quite a few pictures around EB showing parts like that and more and he describes them as prototypes. I wouldn't expect to find any quantities for sale, but if you have an interest in that kind of thing his pictureful posts are well worth searching out.
  24. bonox
    Just for fun, what if you bought the idea? Or perhaps bought a collection of parts already assembled. For example, when was the last time you bought a car and in the literature, Ford said that they wanted to credit getrag for designing the transmission? Or a washing machine and they said that the motor came from ZNG? Sometimes this is done as a marketing exercise if the sub-assembly is from a well know brand and is different to the poverty pack version for example (eg brakes by Brembo), but they aren't actually crediting the designer of the other part....
  25. bonox
    don't the published weights for sets include the instructions? And the boxes? Some of which are quite heavy. The weight (edit) density of straight lego bits would probably be 30% or more higher without the paper and packaging. The 42009 set shows 4.2kg but the sum of the parts is 2.5kg, the instructions 0.85kg and the box 0.775kg. oh, and much of the typical box is empty. There's still a lot of empty space that would disappear with bulk drums of the stuff but yes, still a significant volume.
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