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Yes... but the turning direction of propeller changes... Besides that, it is a nice idea. :-)

This reminds me a little bit of Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium at the end of the 19th century. Maybe you could get some inputs from this early synthesizer.

I agree completely in respect of the importance of controls: Symmetry, accessibility and ergonomic positions are import aspects - after having struggled successfully with the functions itselves. ;-) Like you, I tend to put the controls on the cabin's roof (if there is one) so that they can by reached from both sides and without twisting my hands too much (e.g. in my purple hook-lift truck in [TC 27]).

Is a height of 2 L allowed? Then you could attach two parts 2393 (with their pins pointing upwards) and connect them by a transversally mounted liftarm (which then provides the center pinhole for your contraption).

There are rims which nearly match the conditions - except for the diameter (about 3,5 L). So they won't fit within the 3 L x 3 L space, but have to be situated above the turntable. Moreover, they are thicker than 1 L (about 1,5 L). Example: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=60208#T=C Or maybe you could built something with several connectors? I would begin with two of these https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=27940 or two of these https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=32184 or maybe one of those new parts sitting flush against the turntable's pinholes https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=2393 Or maybe you could use three 5 L liftarms side by side (and stabilized by the outer pinholes which aren't used to lead axles through them). Or maybe this rare part could serve your purposes: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=61905#T=C&C=85

What do yo mean by "a 1L gap which the pin joiners have"? I don't see a 1L gap within a single pin joiner - just the small slot in its middle. And the gap betwern the two pin joiners surely is not what you mean, is it?

This truck is worth every thread bumping! Admirable density, funtionality and cleanness. ...and it's consoling that other MOCers also sometimes run into need of parts they don't have in the amounts they would like to have (pin with pinhole lbg/dbg at the horizontal mini-LA). Speaking of this mini-LA: It's nice to see your advanced version of the locking mechanism based on 8052. This is my favourite part along with the HOG steering using the blue 20 t idle double bevel gear to combine it with the control gear (black 12 t double bevel gear) of the locking mechanism.

Can somebody imagine why TLG tries to promote sets (42055 BWE) which aren't available in store anymore for a couple of years?

On top of the truck comes the crane, which increases the height. According to https://www.brickmerge.de/42043-1_lego-technic-mercedes-benz-arocs-3245, the 42043 is 14 cm wide and 31 cm tall (with retracted crane an retracted outriggers, of course). Given a maximum allowed width of 2,55 m, equivalent to 14 cm in scale, the set's height of 31 cm yields a hypothetical real-life height of 5,65 m. However, maximum allowed height is 4 m - this is the measurement our eyes are used to when it comes to trucks on average roads (at least in Germany). This seems to be the explanation why the 42043 looks a little bit out of shape. All of us who have built some Technic crane trucks will know about the challenges of this type of vehicles. So we appreciate the affords of 42043, but still see the general flaws.

42043 is a nice set with many functions and was maybe the capstone of the last "golden era" in Technic, no doubt. It had suspension and steering and four axles, which alone made it a great set. However, I cannot really understand why it is that highly appraised. I see two conceptual flaws in 42043: 1.) The whole truck is much too high. The wheel arches offer much more space than needed for the wheels. Together with too much spring travel (which is unrealistic, but nice for playing), the whole truck gets too much height. And the crane even surmounts the cabin by quite a few studs! 2.) The outriggers are at the wrong place. In the case of two outriggers, they should be right underneith the crane to provide best stability without too much torsion in the chassis. In 42043, the space under the crane is blocked by the second axle, and so the outriggers had to move to the rear. I believe this is a consequence of the out-of-scale wheels, which are pretty common in Technic.

Should we count how many different colours are used (without any reason) in this set...? We better don't...

Hahaha, according to this review, the price is one of its positive points.

Even for me as a native speaker, these German parts names are quite strange ("Schnapper"...). Furthermore, they are often far away from the more or less accepted nomenclature used e.g. in this forum or on bricklink.com To make things worse, the names obviously weren't checked for basal correctness before made public ("Panel" vs. "Paneel", "Buchse" vs. "Busche", "Rotorblad"...).

Oh yes, we could have known it by looking at the images carefully. I'd wish that TLG's designer had a little bit more of technical understanding and knowledge - or even would do a little test run before inserting wrong arrows into their official images... or even better, they would doublecheck if their promotional images show exactly the set as is it is intended to be built via instructions (which is an old and common isssue...). Thank you for your effort!

The "outriggers" are a shame. Children won't learn the purpose of outriggers by these useless 5 L beams. TLG could have included at least a simple locking mechanism.

The black parts of the rear arm don't seem to be consistent in these images: On the box, we see two thin 1x5 L black liftarms with axle hole at the ends (side by side). In the other image, we see... something else in black above the left rear wheel... not longer than 2 L. Edit: Oh, it's a 2 L beam with ball joint!

It is even worse! They didn't print the taillights on a slope, but they printed them on a sticker (hopefully, not in another shade of orange)!

I still don't see the point in posting some random and vacuous tiny section of a MOC which isn't more than a draft and might be completed sometime in the far future (if at all). But others will, I hope.

Not regarding the price, I like this tipping dump truck. The colours match it's (little) brothers 42112 and 42147. Seems like dark blue becomes what once was yellow for TLG's construction vehicles. I wonder how the tipping mechanism works exactly... still cannot understand the purpose if the 2x4 L-shaped liftarms beneath the bed... looks very wobbly to me so far. The lbg half bush ABOVE the HOG wheel is a thing I really don't like. There must be a better combination of axle lengths!

We clearly see, this set is exclusively for really ruff boyz and unstoppable crotch rocket maniacs!

The supports are two 9L beams in dbg which are mounted vertically. See building instruction steps 57 and 58. These supports transfer pressure from the upper structure onto the lower structure; so they take some stress from the turntable and prevent tilting of the upper structure. This observation fits very well with my hypothesis: By removing the boom, you take away the stress on the turntable. So the whole system gets back in horizontal position (more or less, depending on the turntable's play)

Maybe there is too much play in the turntable, i.e. both turntable-parts are not connected as firmly as they do when they are new and not worn down? A certain amount of play is immanent; that's the reason why e.g. 8043 has supports on the load side.

I agree. Since there are some things I can't really understand in official sets (which might be called "flaws"), I suggest that we talk about these phenomena. This would be a very appropriate topic for this forum for advanced technic builders, AFOLs etc. and might contribute to avoiding these kinds of flaws in our MOCs.

Looking at your posts within the last two months in this thread, I have to say that I would prefer a slight change in procedure: If you have something interesting (admittedly, you often had!) and you are willing to share it, then simply do it. We will look at it and appreciate it. But if you don't want to share it, then simply do not.

For the 20t gear, lbg (or even tan) would have been a possible colour instead of dark azure.