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Nice, Heppeng! Big, but nice! Ican see that work on the big car chassis.

Ah, i see. I mean a scale approx. 12 studs wide, for a truck for example.

Yeah, those things I have, also 4x1x1.

Nope. I did have the car chassis before this one. I know that back in the day me and my friens tried to give that one frontwheelsuspension, but failed.....

Well, I have only classic stuff available. Technic bricks, pins ( grey and black), and for example the steering parts of 8846.

Haha, really easy? Does anyone maybe have an example of it? Because as of now I don't see how to combine it with steering....

I wondered: is it posible with classic technic to build frontwheel suspension on model team scale? ( or just a slightly bigger scale). I ask this since my technic dates back pretty much from before 1985 and no special parts existed back then.

OK, gears, I'm really not good with that, haven't done much with them. Read Sariels guide, but still.....pfffff. Am I correct that, if I have an small drive gear on an axel with a bigger gear, the bigger gear than drives another small gear on an other axel, with on that axel again a bigger gear.......that last gear runs slower? And does that mean that the end result is more torque?

Yeah, but he had so much fun breaking it down completely, ill leave it at this. Im now giving a small unimog a try, scale 1:25, maybe with my 12v motor somehow...

Well, we are back home from Denmark, and Legoland! My son, 4 years old went to play with the not completely finished Turbotwin. 'Look, I can steer! Is it finished now?' 'Almost' And then he drove it of my desk. Total loss. Then, with much enjoyment, he started to brake it down. 'All the wheels came of! Hahahaha! Look, I can get the pieces of eachother all by myself!' Oh well, that happens. I call that the end of this little project. He has build, with a little help his first City set, so I can't be mad at him. Lego is that much fun to play with, and to break it down....

I remember that indeed with the train controller you could let it run very slow., without al lot of gears, which was a good solution for be because i didnt have a clue about gears back then.

Wow, thanks!

I might have that ideabook somewhere. I will take a look.

Thanks for the offer JopieK. When I get home from my vacation, i will see what im going to do with it. Right now im thinking about a model team scale unimog, a small one. With my classic technic bricks. Maybe i can somehow use it there...

What the... What is that? Never seen it before.

It didn't come with a batterybox. I dont know if that was possible. The 4,5v (grey) did have a batterybox, shaped as the motor and pretty long indeed. My friend had one. I think three of those big batteries went in it. I used to run mine with the train transformator, i thought that was the only option for this motor. And DLuders , i use that trick to tune my vw van, hahaha. I think the guys at the garage would be quite surprised.

He,yeah,that is it. With those tchnic plates and rubber bands. That is the set i have. I think that when my elevator cage was launched, the point of the rotating technic pin broke off. :-( Richt at the point where you could attach the rubber band to it. So, is there anything to tell about it? If i remember correctly, and i am not technical at all, it has high revs, but low torque? Could be wrong, but i didnt use it much.

Indeed, it is the black one as shown byDluders. I used to run it with the controller, transformator in dutch, of my 12v traintrack. I have not found much info about it.

Hi all. In my collection I still have an old 12V technic motor. I didn't use it much back in the days, and wondered does it have any use today in a technic creation? Im thinking about making some sort of street sweeper. Could I use the thing for it? (I vagely remember buying the motor,then building an elevator with it. When I used it, the elevator cage was kind of launched into space and the whole thing collapsed. I guess it wasn't geared down properly :-). I was a kid, had no clue.) So now,years later, I wonder if it can actually be used.... Usefull.... If that makes sense.

It is inspired by the classic model team. It actually uses parts of the big american truck of those days. And tnanks for the comment.

Right now i'm enjoying my vacation in.... Denmark, so the finish of the little project has to wait. Guess what we are going to visit next week..... Thanks for the comments. I know it is not cutting edge. I am building with leftovers, so that also limits the proces. And of course im old, so the snot thing is something i have not completely grasped... :-)

I was wondering, had anybody who has build 42009 lifted something with it? How much can it handle?

Haha! It actually has steering Vf racing. It is the main feature :-) I haven't finishend the Inside het. Because there Will be two old school fake engines. Nothing of that modernish pf-stuff. :-)

Tiny update: I did't have much time past months, so only a small step forward, the thing has wheels now. I spend a lot of time searching for al the ads on the TurboTwin. If found most of them. I need to continue building the chassis, but first I will go on Holiday.

Spot the differences! The bodywork is roughly finished. 14 studs wide. Now the chassis.