Seasider

Hi, I’m in the UK (Cheshire area) and I’m selling up most of my Technic collection. I’m trying various avenues to see if people are interested. What I have is a moderate number of sets that have been broken down and in sorting trays, this is what I’ve used over the years for Eurobricks MOCs. As you can see I have the instructions sheets and most (not all) of the sticker sheets unused. I’ve also got most of the boxes but they have been folded flat and stored in a loft for the last 10 years. I’ve also got a number of sets that are still with their boxes. After sensible offers. would be nice to shift as a complete collection but also prepared to sell odd sets via eBay, Facebook, etc

Thanks for the comments. Well aware you very often don’t make money selling old sets, sold quite a lot of Lego over the years. It was really if anyone had any advice about how to sell a collection, but I’m well prepared for going down the route of eBaying a set at a time or a bundle of a few of the smaller sets together. I’ve put feelers out to a few places and see what happens I’m not totally abandoning Technic, I’m keeping my “vintage” collection from when I was a kid, the 1:8 supercars and also the evolution of the chassis into the supercar sets that I’ve collected, oh and I’ve got a 41999 that I’m not parting with. But that’s it the rest is going to free up some space for Space stuff.

Hello all, it’s been a while since I’ve been on here. The usual of life and other stuff getting in the way. So this is sort of a goodbye post, but don’t worry I’m not entering a second Dark Age, just moving on from Technic. Ive been on this forum for quite a while now and covered a good number of the technic competitions, thanks @Jim and @Milan. I think my favourites were the Theme Park and the Studless Recreation ones. so why abandon Technic, well I’ve started playing around with System and got really into minifigure collecting, scratching my long term itch of Space related stuff (I have all the classic space sets). It’s also a lot easier for displaying in my small room. so this is how far I got with the loom, got a lot of it working but never had the time or desire to ultimately finish it https://flic.kr/p/2srhy1U So now I need a bit of help. How would you sell a large Technic collection? I’ve got a reasonable number of sets broken down into trays. Still got all the manuals and for most (almost all) of the sets I never applied the stickers. I’ve also got most of the boxes up in the loft but they’ll be folded flat. I’ve also got a number of other sets still with their boxes but I’ve got plans for them. So I’m after advice how to sell these, I’m in the U.K. https://flic.kr/p/2srgCwX

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.