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  1. Johnny1360
    Good News everyone, hope to see official images soon then. The crawler is just becoming more and more interesting to me now.
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    Ah yes 28 teeth my mistake, so then the gears inside have no further effect on gearing, since they are all the same? Thank you very much for clearing that up for my age addled brain.
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    Delete nothing a mod will help you out and move it to the appropriate forum. It seems more Model Team to me but a mod will know better where it should go. Anyway I like the looks of it and can tell you put some time into it, well done. I have always like the orange and black color scheme too.
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    Okay can somebody please confirm my math? A new 26 tooth differential with 12 tooth gears inside of it driven by 20 tooth bevel gear gives me a ratio of 1:1.666. Or am I just confused?
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    I guess I have just been lucky, so far, I have hundreds not a single damaged one. I did pick up some random used Technic parts recently and several of the bushes were cracked though, old style.
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    I'll start by saying, I have never watched any of those movies. None the less no they didn't become advertising for LEGO sets. They always were and of course always intended as such, anything more should just be considered a bonus. Just my view on the whole can of worms. Of course the same could be said for most modern movies and even many older ones, think product placement is something new, it's been going on for a very long time.
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    That would be great, unfortunately I have none and I am not buying any parts just for this project but yes those would be great. I do have a rather large parts selection though. As I have mentioned, I built a small POC medium motor 800/1200 rpm with a 1:4.632 ratio for a theoretical tire speed of 5558.4. That was only one tire, I want to drive two tires per motor. I have my doubts on that gearing working, will probably reduce it some. I was thinking of differentials, which is why I wanted to know their gear ratio. Anyway this is just a stupid little POC thing for me and I don't really care what it looks like. I do want to work out the gear ratios though and for it to actually work. I do realize friction will be a huge factor for speed and there will be a point of diminishing returns. It does seem like bevel gears have less friction so far. Just fooling around a bit until August.
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    Thanks, though I am not sure how I could incorporate that set, I will check out the instructions. What I have in mind is something like a rail gun, with opposing sets of tires spaced equally down the length of the rail, with a sort of channel for the wings to slide through. I will be shooting a paper airplane through it, more like a missile really. I would like to get some serious speed on the wheels and basicly they will be the only source of friction or load on the motors I am using the 56x26 wheels because with six holes inbetween the axles, the tires barely touch each other. Could someone please tell me the gear ratio of a new style differential driven with a 20 tooth bevel gear? I just can't seem to figure it correctly and I assume quite of few builders have already worked it out.
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    I purposely ignore them, afraid I might see something I like.
  10. Johnny1360
    Thanks for the very insightful reply. I have been using Sariel's gear ratio tool to figure out exact ratios, very helpful tool. I would hook the motors to tires directly but I want the tires to turn much faster than the motors, I am using mediums as they have high rpms, I have no buggy motors. I have tried three gear trains together 20 tooth bevel to 12 tooth bevel, for a ratio of 1:4632 which I think may be a bit much for the motors. As far as what I am working on, it's a motorised paper airplane launcher. So not much load on the tires, I just realize there is a point of diminishing returns as far as gearing and was looking for some insight on what is the best I can expect. I do have many other things to work out as well, chiefly at this time, how to not mangle the plane. I think I should just try straight motor to tire drive for now and gear up later. So thanks for your input. My experiments so far seem to indicate that first I should get the plane to launch then add speed.
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    I want to turn some tires at the fastest possible speed. I will be using 3 medium motors, they do turn fastest right? There will be very little load on them, just the gear train and tires. So a couple of questions and I have been experimenting, since I am going to gear up, which gear type has the least friction and does anyone know how far I can up the ratio before the gears and wheels drag it down? I will be using 56x26 balloon tires and again there will be no load other than the gears and tires themselves.
  12. Johnny1360
    That's pretty good, I like no loud farting allowed, silent but deadly okay then I guess.
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    Mylenium offers some very good advice and tips, more than I could, all I can say is this doesn't really do much for me and in fact if I didn't know what it was supposed to be it would probably take me awhile to guess. Still I wouldn't give up but I do think it should be vastly improved which I feel could easily be done while still keeping it simple. I just don't like it, sorry I can't be more specific.
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    Ha love it, thank you for that.
  15. Johnny1360
    I had no idea the spider crane has so many pieces, I thought 4 or 5 hundred, now I am very interested in seeing it, might be a very good set indeed.
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    Agreed but it is better than the one from the year before which oddly enough was also $100. I guess what I am saying is this seems to be perfectly inline with past RC options as of late, so the price of the new offroader doesn't surprise me at all and even seems to be what one would expect the price to be.
  17. Johnny1360
    Well the Tracked Racer was around 300 pieces for $100, so to me anyway that doesn't sound to far fetched for the offroader, considering the new parts it will have. Edit: Not saying it's a good deal or that I will even get it.
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    I have had some limited success selling LEGO art locally not online, very limited in fact just a few here and there. My stuff is relatively small and simple, around 100 pieces that I pay around $3 for and sell for $10, takes less than half an hour to make. So while I certainly don't make a living doing it, I have managed to make a small amount of money.
  19. Johnny1360
    There is a whole sub-forum dedicated to trains here on Eurobricks, I am sure many of your questions may be answered by reading through the very informative threads, enjoy.
  20. Johnny1360
    Thanks for yet another great review. I just finished building this myself and while I did enjoy the build, somehow this model just seems a bit flimsy compared to other Quinjets, a little more fragile building it maybe. Regardless I found it to be one of the better ones so far although I agree about the minifigures. I did think it strange though, in the instructions the way they show you to load the trike, backed in, you cannot stow the six shooter, you can however if you load the trike front first, like they show on the back of the box. Agree about the price as well, get it on sale. I almost bought it at Target, they had 15% discount but instead I got it from the LEGO store, double VIP points and GWP Avengers Tower, so I was happy with that. Plus a poster, yay. Keep the reviews coming and thanks again.
  21. Johnny1360
    Very well done and much needed, I really wish there would have been a thread like this when I first got into Technic a couple of years ago. It would have saved me a lot of researching but it was fun. I look forward to rereading this and checking out any added content, a must read for those just getting started or anybody that is just looking for some ideas.
  22. Johnny1360
    Kind of funny, every time I mention LEGO to non-fans they also say "Legos are so expensive" and it seems to be pointless to explain the value or bargain hunting aspect of it. They have their minds made up, it's just too expensive. I am glad to see this company getting taken down a notch and I hope it happens more often in the future. I have nothing against competition between legit companies, as it usually means lower prices and more variety but this company is pure scum and flagrantly rips off not only LEGO but MOC builders who often offer free instructions.
  23. Johnny1360
    I got 72005 Aaron's X-bow 569pcs for $10.46 at Target today and some Friends polybags for $2.
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    None the less I will bet you dollars to donuts safety is a major concern of LEGO and plays a large part of why we don't see sets that do many of those things you would like to see.
  25. Johnny1360
    I too like 42070 and would love to have one, I just simply cannot bring myself to pay so much for it though.
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