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    It's in fact this bag and it can be used to carry around your 42056 safely . It's a must-have for if you would carry the model around without this bag, you are likely to loose some bodywork parts.
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    Thanks! I hope it will perform well. I finished designing the entire chassis. Also properly mounted the rear springs. 947 parts sofar, which is quite neat for a complete chassis at this scale, I think.
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    Or a 900 pieces mod kit with exactly the parts needed to fix all issues .
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    Yes and that's perfectly valid . The LEGO marketing department can be proud of the buzz they generated .
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    You're right. Apart from that, this whole thread is mere speculation. I remember we had a similar thread for the Porsche which clearly stated 'Speculation' in it's title. It was closed as soon as the model was released and reviewed. Perhaps @Jim or @Milan could rename this thread to '42083 Bugatti Speculation' to make clear this thread is not about the facts.
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    I know what you mean, but wouldn't it also be logic if the supposed new 20t clutch gear could line up sideways with other clutch gears?
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    That's what I ment to say.
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    I suppose the 20t clutch gear @Jeroen Ottens is referring to, is the type of clutch gear like the red 16t clutch gears we have now. That is, a clutch gear that can engage with a driving ring in a gearbox. In gearboxes these red clutch gears are often lined up to have several parallel clutches. The 24t clutch gear is a gear with an internal clutch which slips under high torque. Not very useful in a gearbox, only when you want to protect parts against halting.
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    I hope you're right, but I think having a 20t clutch gear would make more sense if there was also a 12t clutch gear (which I find hard to imagine), otherwise it will be hard to line it up with other clutch gears.
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    The real car shown also has tan seats. See timestamp 30 in the video. https://youtu.be/VZ7byW6CxHM?t=30s I made a slow motion of the interval where parts are shown. I also see a black knob wheel with an orange (+0)-piece with a tow ball inserted attached to the gearbox. That could indicate a gearbox with 8 gears (7+R?). @Jeroen Ottens used something similar in his DB11.
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    Those are Raaco assortment boxes. They came with removable inserts of various sizes. I used the inserts before and even the smallest parts would stay right in where I put them. Eventually I removed the inserts, because the boxes could store much more without them. I bought these boxes at a local hardware store.
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    Back into cars. I received all motors and springs and ordered two BuWizzes. The motors fit very well in the front suspension. I also incorporated several of @agrof suggestions.
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    @Blakbird, I suppose it's a good thing to act upon the reduced interest you're experiencing. Better than to keep you're house stocked with a valuable collection you don't do anything with. I feel tempted to buy my own MOC .
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    I think so too, and it rises way too high. But then again, most MOCs have their engines sitting too high too...
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    I suppose you're right.
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    Which is a bad smell... The clutch gear in the Porsche served to deal with a halting gearbox...
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    The question will be: Did they learn from their mistakes or did they continue the line of miserable engineering set in by the Porsche? Then again, new rims with better offset and new hubs are always welcome.
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    Thanks! I will certainly leave it hanging during voting . I wanted the escapement to be very visible. One of the last things I did was swithing the bevel wheels with the 3 pins to the back side of the pendulum to make it even more visible. Thank you very much, sir! Yes, I have learned a lot and I've gained even more respect for others who have build clocks with LEGO. Your clocks are very nice examples by the way. Using 40t gear as primary anchor must be very efficient. However, I also wanted to make something original and I'm very happy I succeeded.
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    Okay, I merged them. Thanks!
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    Can I include 2 short extra videos instead of a second and a third picture in my entry post?
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    Pentagon Clock This is a wind-up pendulum clock powered by two pullback motors. This clock is not true to real time but rather focuses on features such as a wind-up mechanism, pin wheel escapement and three concentric hands. It has been built completely in-system and can be reproduced without any fine-tuning, except for making all gears run smoothly of course (LXF-file here). The clock has a very consistent autonomy of 18 minutes. It features: A wind-up mechanism - A differential is used to prevent the hands from running counterclockwise when winding-up the clock. One of it's outputs is locked by default and slips during wind-up. Pin wheel escapement - Instead of using teeth, the escape wheel has three round pins that are stopped and released by a scissors-like anchor, which has been integrated in the pendulum. Three concentric hands - Planetary gears and a differential house make for a fictitious LEGO time system with 2 hours in a clock revolution, 5 minutes in an hour and 30 seconds in a minute. The pentagon-shaped clock face refers to the 5 minute hour. All features have been originally developed for this contest.
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    24. Pentagon Clock This is a wind-up pendulum clock powered by two pullback motors. This clock is not true to real time but rather focuses on features such as a wind-up mechanism, pin wheel escapement and three concentric hands. It has been built completely in-system and can be reproduced without any fine-tuning, except for making all gears run smoothly of course (LXF-file here). The clock has a very consistent autonomy of 18 minutes. It features: A wind-up mechanism - A differential is used to prevent the hands from running counterclockwise when winding-up the clock. One of it's outputs is locked by default and slips during wind-up. Pin wheel escapement - Instead of using teeth, the escape wheel has three round pins that are stopped and released by a scissors-like anchor, which has been integrated in the pendulum. Three concentric hands - Planetary gears and a differential house make for a fictitious LEGO time system with 2 hours in a clock revolution, 5 minutes in an hour and 30 seconds in a minute. The pentagon-shaped clock face refers to the 5 minute hour. All features have been originally developed for this contest.
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    This has turned out very nice! The geneva drive is very cool and the video shows everything very well.
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    Thanks! Here's a video of the escapement with saw blade: There is one drawback to this implementation. The direction of the force pushing the pendulum to the left and to the right is not parallel to that movement. It works because the teeth of the saw blade slide along the stopper (pneumatic T-pieces), but this does cause friction. As a result the clock starts having a hard time when the pullback motors are about 50% unwound. This causes very different autonomy intervals. Once it ran for 50 minutes, but sometimes it stops at 30 minutes. When it stops early you can sometimes push it again and it will run for another 10 minutes. Not very consistent. My original escapement did incline force in the right direction and was much more reliable. It ran for 18 minutes every run and when it stopped the motors were about 90% unwound. And because reliability is more important to me than the length of the autonomy, I plan to revert to my original escapement this afternoon.
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