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Doc would approve Would be interested to see this as a non-tracked model too side question how do you import cad files ? And can it be done into Stud.io too as I use that as I’m on a Mac

Has anyone built a vertical stand (not wall mounted), for displaying this or the Williams? I’m thinking something mainly Technic structure using the 2 connection points of the original stand. Ideally with the nose pointing down. Not got much shelf space so want to maximise what I can display

You can get tracked “wheelbarrows” too. lots of things have tracked variants

I’m ok with the snowmobile. It’s not got wheels in contact with the ground so in my head is valid.

Oooh a new contest … unfortunately lots of busy weekends and lots of official Lego sets to build so I’ll most probably have an idea, start a thread and not finish building it. 🤣 I do still have my Power Loom in pieces on my desk, which I do want to complete at some stage. Might try and do something small and easy for this, and not post unless I get close to completion. PS already have an idea what I want to do. Also assume a few others are likely to create it too.

Well done all

So it’s been a month since my last update as I’ve been busy with lots of other stuff and not had time to work on the loom. Plus I’ve reached a head scratching moment, but more of that later. My first distraction was Bricktastic in Manchester, I go every year and it’s a great show if you get a chance. This year it had got even bigger and it was nice to see a few displays of Lego collections (classic space, ninjago, technic) and not just MOCs. There was also someone selling vintage Lego sets and I picked up this beauty. Last year I’d decided to collect the “classic cars” and I’d thought I had them all until I saw this in the technic display and luckily the seller had one! I could have spent a lot of money on that stall as he had a Space Shuttle and also a Space Monorail too! Thankfully I held off temptation. So back to the Loom. I’ve been working on the shuttle firing mechanism and my initial problem wa how to get the firing arm to return to its original position. A lot of the looms I’ve seen have a spring in tension, which we don’t have in technic. First I had this but found the shock was resisting a lot. So I simplified it and I’ve got this which primarily relies on the weight naturally pulling it back to the right. Note the rubber connector to act as a bumper too. I then tried to work on the mechanism to “activate” this. Looking at some looms I found something like this… But it’s not working as efficiently as I want so I’m back to the head scratching at the moment and taking some time out to build some F1 cars. I’ve been watching some more loom videos and the problem they often don’t linger on a part of the loom long enough to work out the mechanism. I might need a trip up to the National Trust Mill to make my own video! Also it doesn’t help when they’re poorly lit rooms and made of black cast iron! so I finished of by adjusting the frame yet again and this is the current iteration. So some progress but not as much as I’d like. Any advice on how to do the activation of the shuttle firing arm is most appreciated. Remember I’m trying to have it all linked off a single drive. @nico71 I was hoping you’d find my thread at some stage. I’ve watched your loom videos a few times for inspiration. My plan has always been to slowly add bits and get them to work and then modify and repeat. So once I’ve got a shuttle to fly across I was then going to step by step add the thread and adjust as I go. My ideal goal is to try and get something to run at a fast speed like a real loom. Who knows if it’s possible, but that’s the goal.

Just voted, some great entries. Well done all

I’m a long way off so don’t wait for me. 🤣

This weeks update … I placed a minifigure on the top to give you some scale. Most of this week has been building the axle supports in the middle for the cams and lever arms. Some idiot (me) decided to put the axle nearest the camera on a half stud offset in 2 axes ! Which caused a lot of pain. The rest of my time has been adding a few more brace pieces. Then I felt like testing it properly, up until this time I’ve only cranked the gears by hand. So here we go … Yes it works, looks like I need to do some tweaks on the amount of chain and the liftarms that connect to the lever arms. But happy to see it running at speed. No update next weekend as there’s a Lego show I’m off to on Sunday.

This weeks update … The frame on the left is basically what you saw last week (plus a minor update). On the right is where I am now … Why? Well I worked out I needed more movement in frames that go up/down, so I made them larger. Then I moved them relative to the drive cam, by moving the axle that was loose in the last update. This had to be mounted at a half stud offset vertically. Then from all this I worked out I needed to lift everything up which I could have done with just stacking some liftarms under the frame. But instead I took it all apart and moved the gear system up by 2 studs. And so I’ve ended with the right hand frame. I've since made the other side and I’ve started work on the supports for the axles that go for the arms and cams. But ran out of time today. Definitely not going to make the deadline now but will be doing regular work on this as I’d love to see it working properly.

Update from me … Might not look like much but there have been lots of little updates. Had some Bricklink orders in so tidied the frame and also changed the cams. I’ve widened the whole thing so now it’s an odd number of studs across the middle and I’ve started to add some supporting structures to stop the axles flexing too much across the the width. For the keen eyes you’ll notice there’s a loose axle as I need to remount and put supports on this as it’s flexing too much but I think that’s partially down to the new larger cams. You’ll also notice I’ve added the place holder for the fore/aft arm. Not sure when next update is due to stuff going on.

It’s limited edition “halo” status

The problem with top 10 (etc) lists is they’re always skewed/biased. Firstly it depends on who has voted on these, if you took a review of an item off somewhere like Amazon you’d see people would either vote high or low, they either love of hate it there’s hardly ever ratings in the middle as those people can’t be bothered to rate the item. The second thing that happens is recent items are fresher in your mind, often the case with film/tv/music lists. And most importantly I’ve found by having this as a hobby for so long that people like different aspects of the Technic theme so wouldn’t have the same Top Set … I don’t have many pneumatic or motor driven sets as that’s not what I’m into. But from your lists I’d say the second is a better list as it gets rid of the anomaly of the McLaren P1, personally I think the Sian is the best “UCS” Supercar so far. But I’d have liked 8860, 41999 and 42069 to have been on there.

All I know is at least seasons 1-3 are leaving the UK in about 11-12 days time. The first 3 seasons were made by the Syfy channel and the other 3 by Amazon, some I’m hoping season 4 onwards stays. I’ve just started season 3 so need to watch at least 1 per day! back on topic … As to the chains, I thought they seemed more interesting than using string, plus also easier to get the same length