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Somewhere something is missing in this story.. There are too much open ends. When it where mice you would find droppings all over the place. Mice eat, shit and piss at the same time, believe me, you would not have missed that. It stinks, everything they come across rots away from the piss and is smeared. Rats on the other hand are serious neat and trained, you will find their droppings alway on one place. But a rat would not only bite in the plastic, the wiring would also be damaged. Both would leave bitemarks all over the wire, not only neatly eaten away areas. So it NOT any kind of animal that did this. Chances are that the plastic was brittle. Any stronger movement or bending would at that point break away the isolation with the wires intact. And thats what I see here, But WOE did the plastic remains go?? And who did that bending/movement? Burning looks also different. Seen that enough and just believe me, this was NOT burning.

Nope Bitemarks are missing, damage by mice, rats, marten, etc look different, I allready wrote that i'm very familiar with repairing such damages

Thats not fried, the plastic isolation is persihing, plastic consist of a part plasticizer, that part slowly vaporizes over the years. The remaining plastic becomes hard and brittle and breaks. No, thats looks different. I've seen lots of mouse damage in apparatus I fix for a living.

Hey That's exactly what happens here with the 10252 Beetle.

XXX rated LEGO omg

No you can't test caps with a dmm That is, only a rough guess but you won't find leaks, for that you need an specilised instrument called ESR meter. A cap may look good with a dmm but fail in circuit.

10252 beetle made me VERY emotional Building on a sunday with my wife When we were bagset 3 doing we missed the one parts after the other... It turned out that the &^*^&*(&()* had put in a wrong little partsbag in it... I cursed lego... 77 parts short in difficult colors and a load of other parts that I didn't need So I ordered them at missing pieces dept... and they cancelled it, it was too much So i cursed them this time from the planet Phone... took half an hour waiting... (while cursing) Took me an age to explain that I had a load of wrong parts and that they made a packing mistake Another person jumped into it...and finally understood what happened and send me the parts plus 750 vip points for the fuzz

differential for sure... You reversed one of them. Oh well, you liked to build it, you may do it again now Condiser it double fun.

The only thing you can fix is pushing the wires in the idc connectors. for the rest it's smd electronics that are hard to replace with standard tools.

@JimI don't know if you allready had your hands on I Spike set. I have it and found that the touch sensor is force sensitive unlike the EV3 version that is only an on off switch. So it really has a usefull function.

Good review @Jim I however liked the colors of the Spike sets cause of their fresh look. This set looks a bit dull but i will buy it for sure when the price drops. Quite strange that they didn't use the large angular motor and the touch sensor.

Ow well, so cutting bricks, painting, 3D printing bricks, Sbrick, Buwizz, PFbrick are all forbidden... @Zerobricks interesting subject isn't it? Buwizz will be expelled @MAB is it obligatoire to destroy mine now? And where does it end? With buying worn motors or Buggymotors for a price beyond any normal sense. You should know that I don't like the kind of chinese sellers that copy mocs or Lego sets too. But here we are talking about motors that are no longer produced.. I wish those chinese could also produce good working servomotors but here it goes badly wrong

Motors, good working motors for less than a 10th of the price NEW motors... Probably with the same DC motor inside as the OEM motor.

If you want to restore an oldtimer car you may need some parts. Parts that aren't produced by the OEM for decades. But there are some aftermarket producers that make those parts. It's perfect normal that you use such parts to restore your car. And now people start telling me that parts that are no longer manufactured by Lego shouldn't be bought from an aftermarket producer? Instead you want us to buy overpriced motors without a use history from bricklink. Really?

Great work and compliments for the instructions.

Hmmmm Looks like I missed something. Things go fast....

Love this idea @keybrickone Ik really hope you use the lastest usb connector, I still don't understand why tlg used the outdated and more fragile micro usb, especially weird if you consider kids playing with it.

I read somewhere that there is a way to share but it's not easy. You need to find the map on your device where the "programdata" is stored and copy that to another device. I've not yet tried this but I suppose some people here will know more about this.

You just found out how irritating it is. However you didn't get the queste of an example.

Just ask Google, "net etiquette and forum rules". You will instantly find everything you always wanted to know about the web but were affraid to ask for. One addition that is rarely stated, do not underline text if its not a link, thats very irritating.

O come on, these are budget models that will be found under 10 bucks You can't expect actuators for that price.

No just the naming of the device. Real hydraulics are way to complicated for use in a toy. High pressure (relative) leaks, messy. And ABS is not really a material for use with higher tensions that come with it Pneumatics are forgiving, a problem results in a SSSSSSSS. Hydraulics not, a problem results in a mess.

Maybe you first read what I wrote before commenting. I did not short anything The damned thing blew during a perfect normal loading process. btw If it looks like a bird and flies like a bird then is it probably a bird So this is (was) a usb loading wire. If not we encountered another piece of JUNK since it does not comply to the USB rules. But whatever The whole thing is actually forbidden to import here since it doesn't comply to even the slightest CE rule. And for those that are laughing, check if your fire extingishers are okay and doublecheck your fire insurance

Yes JUNK And when I say JUNK i really REALLY mean JUNK Let me give you an example. I have a CADA set, yes, I not the kind of man that talks about JUNK when he's not really sure that it is really JUNK Okay... a cada set.... Load it, quite nice idea to use an USB cable to load it, perfect actually cause you don't need the expensive LEGO (or cheap Ali) loader. So I connect the batterybox to my computer.... ALARM....USB PORT OVERLOADED AND SHUT DOWN... Ow happily I have a high end motherboard that monitors everything and shuts it down when it goes wrong. But wtf? Overload? At some day I also bought an inline powercontrol monitor thingy so this was the moment to use it in combination with an 6 Amp USB loader (not Ali, so safe and overload protected) OEPS... ohoh... the current draw was out of range for the monitor. But wait Whats that smell? I could just grab the batterybox and throw it in my garden trouhg the window, halfway it burst into large flames.... Yes a Lithium fire... The internal loading circuit was blown, it didn't work at all. So maybe you now have the picture, this Chinese stuff does NOT comply any safety rules, its JUNK But the very very worst part of it is that this JUNK also can set your house on fire And it does not end here. This JUNK can also poison you since Lithium fire gives an extremely dangerous vapor. Maybe you best throw all this JUNK in the safety container at your local waist centre. I did And I wll never ever but such devices from Chinese sellers that do not comply to safety rules. Thanks for reading Yours sincerely me, electronics engineer.

Maybe you didn't notice but this is an LEGO forum and that mouldy king it not really welcome here.