Povl H. Pedersen

I know this is a bit old. But for rubiks cubes (which are made of all sort of plastics), we use silicone oils only. Available from most Remote control stores, or eurorc.com in europe. You can get any viscosity you need from 100 cSt (almost water) to more than 50.000 cSt (used for springs etc) which are thicker than liquid honey. Silicone is plastic and food safe. And it is not under pressure. They spray types often have something bad in the pressure gas.

3. Cunctator - 3 5. AllanSmith - 1 27. Myko - 1

9. FliXFantatier - 1 12. moctown - 2 16. kciR - 2

24 sdrnet 3 8. cava 2

This was my 2nd technic set, bought last August with 40% off together with my yet unopened unimog and the small helicopter, and the small car. My son loves it, and now we are building the B-model. He can't wait for me to finish. Very good playability, and interesting to build. I agree on the good value. Just got the small 2010 excavator at 50% off as well. I build stuff, and the B-model, and sometimes isingle set MOCs after inspiration from Grohl. Has not yet started to mix sets.

After installing direct-X 9.0c it launches fine for me, and displays GUI + boundigbox rects in the 3D area. parallels supposedly support shader 2.0 and I saw elsewhere minimum is shader 2.0 Guess I will have to do the dual boot solutions, but that will make sure I will not use it often.

Anybody had success running SR3D on a Mac ? I have tried on latest version of Parallels Desktop with Direct-X 9.0c, and I am sometimes able to get a grid, and the bounding box of pieces, but has no success getting anything I can use. Loading demo models just gives me a blank work area. The reason why I am looking for that is, that my first MOC, a 2-engine plane mod of the small helicopter set has 2 flexible axles, which I have tried to get into my model with Lsynth, but I have major troubles getting this to work. I can get a flexible hose, but not a flexible axle. Other tools and ideas welcome as well. I could of course also just create a Windows Bootcamp partition, and boot native in Windows, but would rather not give up having my OS X environment available.

The trike rider is just great. I favorite. Iris simple, and has actions just by moving it. And movements very lifelike. If I just had the bricks.... This is an inspiration, for non-Lego lovers as well

I have yet to start my set. But I always enjoys testing small pieces of functionality along the way. So I am not fast. I expect at least 2 days with breaks for the family.

Anybody tried to use it with 6 pcs of 10440 batteries instead ? They are 3.6V each, so I assume you do with one two or 3 batteries in each side, you just need to get all positive terminal connected together to plus, and all negatives to minus (put them in parallel intends of in series). The rechargeable Lithium cell do have a longer shelf life (no auto-discharge), lower weight, and has 350-500 mAh eac. In parallel this is 1050-1500 mAh. So half the weight at same or larger capacity. This would be a poor-mans rechargeable battery box. And the 10440 are only around $1.50-$2.00 a piece in china (ebay). The rechargeable AA and AAAs i bought in china are all lower than listed capacity.

The Town hall could be one good one, with a HUGE christmas tree. And an old-style train station, with a black steam train (no Power Function), and 2-3 tracks. But the stone church is something I think TLG could make. There are lots of them in Legoland, at least in Billund. Also standing as the dominant building. And since christmas is a christian holiday, celebrating the birth of Jesus, son of God, they are already on the religious area. And you will probably find more churces than city halls on this planet. They also make pigs and dogs, which are incompatible with some religions. IKEA removed christmas parties etc, but still sells stuff for the christmas tree. It was announced to be doing away with religious holidays and religious symbols like santa hats. I remember a local workplace announced they would remove the hats too, but it lasted only a few hours until the CEO announced he had no plans to kill christmas.