Nazgarot

That's an amazing build... You wouldn't happen to have a video of it in action?

What would be the point of that? Then there wouldn't be anything for us to modify... ;) I really hope that is what they thought when making the U400 set. It certainly seems to have room for modifications, and I thought the layout could have been a lot better. But I'm just as happy with that =D -ED-

Nice work. I hadn't noticed. But that has to an old one. Just wondering if it has 1 or 2 planet gears. I've seen some with 2 planet gears, but I don't know if they are modified or official Lego. If they are official I really hop this is it.

Wow! This is really great! Makes me wanna build one my self, but I'm neigther there in building tecnique or knowledge of parts... Your pictures, and the way you show hov you solve problems is very good! Thanks. I thought this might might spark some interest. It's from before my time, but quite good konsidering the bricks available at the time.

I've always had a good memory when it comes to Lego, and I haven't thrown away a single instruction booklet, ever! That of course helps in remembering the sets I've had, but I actually think I know the exact amount of almost all pieces I have (except form Technic, as I have some sets I've never dismaneled), and I do have a lot of sets. I've never been one to keep the sets, but by keeping all the instruction booklets I'm able to rebuild anything when ever i want. I'll start posting pics soon, but I'm not really certain where I should post them. Is there collections of MOCS for all categories that you post to, or does everyone start one thread pr project? I can see some are trying to collect MOCs in indexes. I'll also like to start a bog for some of my bigger projects. Some help to get to know the forum would be welcome. -ED-

+1 for the Gelendewagen. My father drove one for more than 20 years. With lockable differentials, crawl gear, floating axles, completely motorized and with RC. That would be something... I think I'll build it my self! I would also like to see the old 1519 Truck. It's rounded in every direction, and should make a good challenge for TLG.

I'm sorry if this introduction might be at bit longer then usual (I love to write), but bear with me, and I have to excuse my English; Grammar has never been my strong suit. I'm Norwegian, 29 years old, and have been toying around with lego for a few years... I had a long brake since I was about 11, but came back to Lego when I settled down. Back then I buildt a copy of U.S.S. Missouri after having seen Under Siege with Steven Seagal (his only good film in my opinion, but my view may be collored by the fact that it was the firsth action movie I ever owned). It was quite a good model, for being made by a eleven years old child with limited recources, and it stil excists to this day, if a little damaged. I hade to make some design decitions back then, I wanted it to be playable with, so the looks wasn't to important, and it was red, because it was the bricks I had the most of. I will recondicion it and put up a few pictures as soon as I can (have to go home and get it first). (Maybe my next build would be a remake of it? quite an exciting idea!) My history with lego is not very strigth forward. I was about 18 months old when I firsth picked up small bricks. It wasn't lego, even though I had played with duplo from being born (or close enough), but some bricks my big sister had, that was called polly. They where similar to lego but a bit smaler, with bigger knobs. According to my mom (and one of my firsth clear memories) I started playing with my sisters bricks, even though my parrents had forbidden it because they where to small, when I tought they didn't see it. My sister was about to chase me away when my parents stoped her. They wanted to se what I would do, and was quite shocked when I actually started building a house. I never put a single brick in my mouth, so they allowed me to continiue playing with it. Some months later I got a bag of real lego bricks from a cousin who was moving away, and was in heaven. My firsth technic set was a motorcycle (set number "1924-1") I got in early 1984, I became 3 years old in the summer of 84, and can still remember my mother complaining that it contained to many small parts... And I got may firsth set with a motor system in 85, set number 1033. It was some kind of inventor set, and was the firsth true technic set I became aware of, containing several types of gears and so on... But one of the sets I remember the most clearly was the "5580 Highway rig" I got in -86. I stil think this is one of the best "creator" sets lego has ever launced, even though they where called "model team" back then, maybe only beaten buy it's follower the "5590 Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck" launched in 1990. But considering it was launched in -86, 5580 STILL rules!! By 1994, 12-13 years of age, different interests had taken over, among those nitro powered RC-cars and computers, and it was not cool being a teenager playing with lego, even though I still loved it. The last to sets i got for many many years was "8829-1 Dune Blaster" and "8858-1 Rebel Wrecker". By now things was realy starting to happen with techninc lego, but it was another 14-15 years before I would by a lego set for my self again. That was the "UCS Millenium Falcon" in 2008. I have moved around a lot, but in 2007 I was moving for the 4th time, after 4 years at a university college, having studied rocket science. I whent home to my parents in the easter Holiday, and tought to collect all my toys and stuff as I was expecting to move down south (in Norway) for good this time. I spent several days collecting and rebuilding my old sets, and stowing them away, as well as sorting out all the technical lego that i wanted to take south with me. This peeked the interest again, and I started checking out the lego home pages. I saw the Millenium Falcon was comming, and as a true fan of both Star Wars and lego I just had to have it! I preordered it form USA at firsth chanse, and got it about 4 months later in early Mars 2008. an 16 hour build later, and it was done. My interest was again peeked! When the motorised buldozer came out I just had to get it, as it contained a lot of stuff that I needed to test out an RC project I had been thinking of for some time (A replica of the famous RipSaw "tank". May post pics in the future). And that was the start of a new renesance for my lego career. I have since bought about 10 sets, another buldozer for the parts as well as a front loader, and a few Star Wars sets. And now, I finaly have made my firsth order from bricklink, and is starting som big projects. I recently bought a house, and move in about half a year ago. There I have three separate rooms to use for my hobbies. a 60 square meters garage (for cars, RC and mechanical hobbies), a 25 square meter insulated outhose (For lego) and a 15 square meters room for wood and plastic models. This spring I've been a bit short on time, with lots of things to do with the house, but it's shaping up nicely, and it seems I'll have more time to "work" with lego in the summer. I have several big MOC's planed, but havent made many yet... A few like the battleship Missouri when I was a kid, a MOC of the 8850 Rally Support Truck with independent front suspension and a floating rear axle (My father just loved this car, and asked if I could do a remake of it), and the before mentioned RipSaw MOC. The new 8110 U400 Unimog has really given me water on the mill, as it came with a lot of new parts that will help me build the MOCs I've been planing. I'll try to find my way around the forum, and post a few pics when I find where to post them. My main interests in Lego are Technic, Mindstorms and StarWars. Now, that was a presentation of me. Now, if you want to get to know me better, please do not hesitate to contact me. Oh, and I have recently become stepfather to a two years old boy! So now Duplo and traditional bricks are comming into focus as well. EDIT: If you find this interesting you should check out my about me page in my profile. EDIT: Added some links

If you have a powerfull enough compressor it shouldn't be a problem, and we are sure hoping it is. The old 8868 Air Tech Claw Rig was suffering from a weak compressor, and didn't have the smooth movement you get from a rig with an airtank. I expect to have to modify the compressor to use heavier equipment on this, or to use several cylinders at once, but as long as you only use the claw it shouldn't be a problem. On 8868 the biggest problem was the double cylinders for turning the rig. They requiered a lot of air and the compressor was rather weak. There is also another problem you can get on this rig. If the compressor is running without you using any functions, it will build up preasure in the hoses, and the moment you open a valve it will "jump" (This was also known to happen with 8868, especially if you modified it to get a more powerfull compressor). An airtank should efficiently eliminate this problem, as the compressor would have to runn for a long time befor building enough preassure for this to happen. If you realy wannna be safe, just add another pump to the compressor, and controllit through a preassure switch (Ther is several MOCs of this around). That way you will always have air in abundance, and you will be shure to avoid "jumping" as the pressur never goes over the limit you have set. (An airtank in combination with this is of course even bether, as it will give the compressor much smoother operating conditions... Guess what I'm going to do...) =D @garson: A compressor is just a motorized pump. It can come with or with out a tank. Large compressor systems for Cold storage refrigeration units often come without an tank. They regulate pressure through changing speed, and can't have a "real tank" as that would slow down their reaction time (They may however have a small buffer).

Do you think thay will be stiffer/Stronger than these?

I'm quite scertain it's a regular axle (haven't seen it in real life, so I can't guarantee it), but the important part is that we know it can be conected to a gear! The how of it is only important if you are going to modify or change the hub itself.

Yes, just a pitty they used the ugliest mog around as a model, but I guess Merchedes had a say as well (They need to promote the new workhorse)... It should however be easy to convert it to one of these: U2100 U1650 (the old work horse) I accualy think the chassi looks more like the U2100, with it's high clearance around the wheels. And I think it even might be possible to modify it to resemble the U2100 with the parts already included, just add a 3 stud 3 armed stearingwheel as the star like has been suggested earlier. -ED-

What I dislike about the new portal-axle-part is that it puts the piviot point so far from the rim. The last 4 WD part to come, 873c01, did this right by having the piviot point inside the rim. It givs a much more realistic stearing. Unfortunaly it was lacking in strength for powered models. It would be no problem to design a similar, but stronger, solution when they designed the new part, witch leads me to wonder why they didn't... Is there more sets on its way, with new uses for it? I'm allready designing a full RC roadgrader (Have been for the last year or so), and I will take full advantage of this paert, by using it horizonaly to get a stiff tandem with reduction and a single strong mount to a single diff, giving it a free swinging tandem housing. The new tiers helped a lot, as they let me scale the model up with about 20 %. I had stopped the design at christmas last year do to lack of space for the parts i wanted to fit (if I where to keep it in scale), but with the new portal gearboxes and new tires I'm right back on track, and it will scale perfectly. Length 10 097 mm = 101 studs, with 2 463 mm = 25 stud, Tire diameter 1250 mm = 12 studs. And i can just fit the remote valves for the pneumatic under the hood! So understand me right, even though I'm dissapointed about the portal gearboxes lacking a C-hub construction with piviot point inside the rim, I'm very happy that we get new parts to play around with. Maybe I'll even try to make modifiction to them... Who knows. ;) AND, the torque tube are fantastic! They will fit stright in to a lot of MOCs!! EDIT: I just remembered something. The 873c01 isn't only usable for stearing and power transfer to wheels. Combined with a couple of these: It makes quite a good torque tube, but it's week, so it can't handle a lot of torque... Here's an example where it's used in a multilink suspention with a Watt linkage. By exchanging the black 6 long axle with a 5,5 axel with stop, using a modern differential, and putting the stop inside the C brace around the diff, you can drop the multilink and only use a single torque tube in the front, and a Watts linkage or a panard bar in the rear end. I've modified the old 8850 Rally Support Truck by using it this way, and it works like a charm. But it wont be able to handle the tourqe of heavier cars.

I'm very dissapointed they didn't make a C-Hub construction when they made the new portal axle part... :| I realy feel let down by TLG, but I'm still looking forward to buying his set. It has a truck load of possibilities for improvements, and modifications, using more then one motor, and making it driven. =D -ED-

From these pictures It seems like the turning point is very close to the center of the wheel. I'm guessing it's some kind of C-hub on the outer side of the reduction piece. The biege pins I guess you are refering to, at 5 studs from the rim, might have some other function like holding multilinks or something similar. -ED-

Hi, For anyone hwo wants to know more about torque tubes and the drivetrain of an unimog, I recommend this page! I, like veryone else here, can't get this set fast enough. I've been thinking of building an unimog since I took up lego again about two years ago, and actually have a lot of consept done, but this is so much better... I just hope it realy is a tourqe tube, and not a multilink suspention. I've recently built a MOC of the 8850 rally support truck and found it quite easy to build a compact floating multilink axel for the rear end, but almost impossible to build a compact one that includes both stearing and drive (through differential) to the wheels... The new parts suspected here would be nothing short of a revolution!! I'm so excited! -ED-