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did someone just rip a hole in the space-time continuum?

they are unable to get PF connectors any more, so they have stopped making the cable. It's always out of stock and probably won't ever be available

Excellent model and great presentation as always, but most of all I really appreciate the little breakout summary of your solution to the steering problem. Bravo

only over the 'dutch' :D

thankyou very much to both of you for making instructions. I look forward to building another iconic car :)

interesting thing. Looks like the rear axles are sprung like an old VW beetle - camber changes with load. Any idea what the leading wheels under the lights are for? Just to cover for entry clearance?

fabulous work on the drum :) I'd also love to know if you plan to make instructions. btw, for general info, cement is the glue in concrete. So this is a concrete mixer rather than a cement truck. You may also be interested in making a cement carrier like this one: does your drum have a spiral inside? Does it work if you put a pile of little elements inside?

a technic beam isn't as stiff (well marginally) as a an equivalent brick of the same size, and you could just as easily make internal frames for models out of studless instead. It's just easier to join technic bricks together at non-orthogonal angles than for plain bricks. I can get what you're saying, but rigidity comes from the design of an assembly of parts rather than a single part by itself. That's why truss structures exist in place of just thick slabs. Building guts for small models is probably better served by technic bricks than for UCS sized models, but you can still integrate studless technic with system - it's probably just simpler to use studded technic bricks rather than say that stiffness is a reason for TLG to hold onto them. the thread title is specifically about technic bricks in technic models - Technic models still come with system parts (porsche anyone?) and system models still come with studless technic liftarms.

mocplans? the means already exist that are much better as far as advertising than just using a pay per click generic download service.

I bought some ikea's yesterday. I'm using them to support my legos

forget the tyres and use rails instead

There appears to still be stuff hidden under the covers. I like downloading my orders, so I keep a record of every part i've purchased. I can no longer find the 'download' link from the orders page but you can find it here if you are also after it https://www.bricklink.com/orderExcel.asp

The list goes in correctly - just to the default list instead of the one I select in the drop down list. I don't know how you can upload "incorrectly" but get the parts, colours and quantities you specified, but in the wrong spot. I've tried it with a rebrickable list too and get the same issue. I've raised a ticket with them. In the end, I suppose I can understand why they're futzing with it, but it mostly looks like a dumbed way down version of the old one based on some people complaining that they didn't understand it. I'm all for improving things, but when you've got a live site, with paying clients keeping you alive (ie my store and every store pays for the site), then why would you just switch over to a new version that's radically different without some kind of way to access the old version (or functionality at least). If your bank did this and you couldn't get money moved around, you'd crucify them. It looks like the v2 upgrade is a bunch of kiddies playing with code and no so much planning of the business aspects of their changes.

also, i've purchased two orders, and the old "subtract from your wanted list thing has gone, and the % complete bar hasn't moved from zero either. Looks like many people are getting the megabloks with the purchasing and wanted lists! http://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=206352&nID=991592 did that. Even selecting a list, it all goes in the default one.

i can't work out how to upload an xml file to a specific wanted list - all the ID numbers for wanted lists have vanished. Anyone got a clue?

the more you dig, the weirder it gets. How do i search for stores with a certain part, part colour and minimum quantity now? Qty search field has vanished and I think your only option is to start sorting - but you can't multi sort by qty then price. I don't see a problem with new skins, updating code to resize for any window/browser etc, but when you remove useful functionality, you're bound to get a backlash. that's using menu SHOP - Search by Item. Seems like the old functionality exists after one search when a sub-menu pops up, but not in the first instance. They keep messing with it, but it's only 'intuitive' to new users.

it's ok, but i'm having a hell of a time trying to see my entire wanted list. You can see items per wanted list id, but not the collection of all stuff across your entire wanted list. Make it very hard to update things or see how much of a particular part you are trying to find across many simultaneous builds. having said that, I like the % complete element of each wanted list.

if it's very uncommon (and out of production), you might be better off getting new panels rather than another set of stickers. I figure that since I have a hell of a time getting stickers off panels in one piece simply because I don't want them (eg they came on BL parts orders), that your chance of successfully removing an entire set worth, in good condition (without curling up on a non-stick sheet for storage) would be vanishingly small. even soaking the panels in warm soapy water for days doesn't necessarily encourage them to come off nicely, especially if you cleaned the surface before applying the sticker.

doesn't exist. The 3/4 pin has a thin liftarm on one side, but it's full thickness on the other. You can use a half pin to join them together, but you get a stud left on one side. they are http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=4274 http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=32002 or just search the BL catalogue for Technic, Pin

a very educational and entertaining read

at a fundamental level, that model describes pretty much every (if not actually every) significant construction humans have ever built. Using a lego set as an example, you have some machines to extract raw materials, other machines to process them, more to create moulds, further ones to inject plastic into those moulds - and all of them are created/operated/maintained by an overseer - let's call him a human/robot analogue. \ Going back to the history of other 'constructions' the act of creating sandstone to build a pyramid is akin to the same idea, but longer timescales are involved and 'machinery' is quite different, going all the way back to creating a star and waiting for it to nova and produce some heavy elements for you to work with.

that's actually pretty simple if you can feed that machine with a pile of suitable parts. I think people get messy in a point of difference between being able to assemble a copy of yourself from constituent parts versus having to create those parts as well as put them together. There are close examples in lego - the self assembling space elevator one for example is probably half way there - but the true replicators are probably still science fiction in a machine sense, but actually do exist in a biological sense; We're already editing dna to get bacteria to do what you want and then they keep replicating themselves in the usual fashion, but with your modified 'payload' on board.

odd versus even stud lengths - fundamental shift in design philosophy (a 16L tech brick and a 15L liftarm have the same number of holes, but the application in non-orthogonal constructions is very different.

44772 - just a hint for you, a lot of these are on rebrickable.com and will give you the parts list used: http://rebrickable.com/mocs/jurgen/koenigsegg-supercar if you click on the wheel link, you'll find where it's used in MOCs and factory sets, and you'll find the 8110 under the factory sets in light blue grey.

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