Bartybum

Lol rip

Oh man imagine that. That could totally be possible with polycarbonate filament. Surely some o-rings could be enough to seal them mostly? I've seen a guy on YouTube who made one a while back out of bottlecaps:

I don't mean this as a request or anything, but have you ever looked into designing a fluid coupling/torque converter?

Is the comparison between this and 42076 fair? They’re sets at entirely different price points

I'm not much bothered by that to be honest. There’s already viable competitors. I’m not really pro the idea of supporting a huge company that can’t even support itself. That's for the Danish government to subsidise, not me.

Also, I feel it's worth pointing out to consider that it's also your opinion that Lego shouldn't sit on a shelf. Fixing flaws in a set is only appropriate for someone who has multiple sets (and therefore the pieces to spare) and is happy to take them apart for MOCs - there are many people who bought the Chiron just because they wanted to build it, and therefore expect that for the hefty $600AUD pricetag it'll at least have stiff enough springs not to sag. If a new consumer doesn't have the extra springs to mod it, then they're sh*t out of luck until either they get reamed by Bricklink's shipping costs, or they spend extra money buying yet another pReMiUm Lego set that has the amount of springs they need to fix it. It's sh*tty product development and TLG should absolutely be called out for charging consumers a premium just to serve them a faulty product. It might be trivial to you, but not to others. MOCing may be the point of Lego to you, but some people just wanna put together a sports car, excavator or whatever and have the satisfaction of it working as it should. It isn't utter lunacy to want that experience, especially when you're giving away $600AUD for that. By the way, duh obviously there are courses teaching people to fix tube punctures - they're part of bike service courses. Like damn dude, there's different things that may not be immediately obvious when you go from zero mechanical experience to a full bike service. F*** anyone who didn't have your galaxy brain when they were six, and wants to know whether there are special tips for surface prep, and doing something according to manufacturing specs, right? How dare they take a course

It would've been helpful to say that you're not addressing anyone in this thread in that case, as that was my and clearly a lot of others' impression.

Which event was that?

Oh wow, thanks for that pic. I had no idea they were so complex :O

The sides can be connected to beams, and the ball joints can be connected to the ball socket arms often seen in suspension setups. There’s no technical hurdle here

Honestly I’m just expecting a flat dumper/bed crawler. I was holding out for a pneumatic crane because of the price tag, but the rumour a month or so back got me cracking the sads

You can’t really, since there aren’t actually any other current applications being used for the Osprey like there are for the Zetros

What about the fire truck and/or crane truck variants? There's definitely commercial/utility applications for it

@TeamThrifty I'm happy to wait for you to actually go read over this thread and craft a more constructive response. What an utterly worthless comment

This is basically just what I do now

Relax my mans, the people wanna talk

In the element design thread the designers talked about how they generally try to use pieces that exist, which makes me suspect that they wouldn’t bother designing a new planetary hub, especially since there isn’t really a need for one in this application (42100 didn’t have one either) - you can just reduce the drivetrain before it reaches the sprocket

Bloody hell I know right lmao

Sorry, I misunderstood your comment and thought you were trying to spin cost reduction in a positive way.

Then why haven’t those cost reductions been passed on to the consumer?

I feel this misrepresents what was happening in the other thread. I've just gone over it again - for quite a number of pages towards the end there wasn't any arguing about set features, or at least none that would naturally lead to this discussion about complaining. It was basically just a discussion/speculation about the feasibility of having a subtractor mechanism, and the complexity of sets in general. There were a few negative things mentioned but they weren't really excessive, none that should have triggered this much noise. It all got derailed when someone assumed that people would complain, I rebutted, then the "Technic is for kids" line got dropped, and suddenly here we are.

What CAD and FEM packages do you guys use? As an engineering student and experienced user of Solidworks, Creo and ANSYS, I’m wondering how does one get into working as a Lego element design?

Why not? Whenever we complain here, we always spell out what we're annoyed at (assuming someone else hasn't spelled it out yet). As adult consumers, we have money we want to throw at TLG. We want them to produce sets we'll want to buy. The only way for that to happen is for us to voice ourselves to get our wishes heard. If it bothers you, falkn and AV that much (and we know it does, otherwise this conversation wouldn't be happening) then... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This one would most likely be a clone brand wheel

How is it sneaky? It’s a 100% reasonable explanation as to why there seems to be constant complaining in this sub. Different people are interested in and want/expect different things from a set. When what they want isn’t realised, they’ll leave a comment complaining/discussing it. That’s... that’s entirely not what falkn or I were talking about. I was calling him out for very clearly treating the AFOL Technic community as a single mind and having a Pikachu face at the fact that different people have different interests.