Anders Nolberger

The remote was sold out at S&H when I vas going to order also but I found some on Bricklink and ordered mine from US. But now I can't find any for sale there either. I am working on a new tender with this battery holder. I took the one for 8 bateries and modified it to 6 batteries instead. I will then build a wagon around it so that it does not take so much space as the one i am using now. It will also fit the IR receiver somewhat better.

Good that it works on the blue track for you. I guess that my white pieces that hold the rails are to old (i can't remember their name now, but the 2*8 plates). your battery box also looks much better than mine. I have now taken some photos of how I have it connected right now. Motor with some part to connect to the train base. Notice how I have filed of the extruding part on the connector for it to fit nicely in the train base. I have started to rebuild the train around the new motor. In the empty space I will but some weights to get more traction when running with lots of wagons. Complete on the tracks. I will rebuild the tender with some other battery box and move the IR receiver to it also later. As it works so nicely I will be ordering red wheels for it. I wan't that old look that is somewhat ruined by the black wheels.

Yes perhaps two (or four, two and two?) of thoose peices might get the tip of the connector over the baseplate so that it works without modification.

Wow! It is absolutely wondwerful. Great job, no wonder you won!

I use http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/8881-1 now. But it is too big to be god. The small one you link to I think takes one 9V battery and that will not be enough to drive the train any longer time. The bigger one will work IF you rewire the cable so that the IR receiver gets the right voltage. Or if you connect it directly to the motor without the IR Receiver. I think that the cable works with the motor and the battery boxes you linked to but it will not work with Power Functions like the IR. I have now the motor running in my train. In order to fit the motor at the right place I had to file of the plastic of the cable connector where the cable comes out and instead let the cable go right up. I also have not got my remote control yet so I can not use the IR speed regulation. The motor fits nicely but I don't know where to put the IR yet. It is really ugly as I have it now. Perhaps a smaller battery box so that the IR can be placed in the tender. I don't know why but the train moves way to fast! It is hard to get it to run on the rail and ones it even tipped outwards in a curve because of the speed! I guess that it will be better with the remote but how does it work in the RC trains where it is not possible to regulate the speed? Also the motor did not run well on my blue rail and I had to by new RC rail instead. I will post pictures soon to show how I have put it together.

Thank you very much everyone. Your words are very appreciated and inspiring.

Thank you everyone for your kind words. Most of the tractor is based on the small red tractor or the blue one in the farm from Lego. So my work is not much. On the big blue tractor there is a 3 point linkage but I have not used it for the plough. I think that it only complicates things. I am not very happy with how the plough looks but I will post images of it regardless. Please post images of your machines to, I am very interested in how they look! Have you seen this (not my creation) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=261864? I think it would look amazing with the new windscreen.

I just got a reply that a Brick Separator is on its way. The Key Chain is mine to keep! Thats customer service!

Today I received an order with some Power Functions stuff. I also orderd a Brick Separator because I was interested in what it is/how it works. But I got a Yoda Key Chain instead! Not a big deal for my but I emailed support to see how they reacts. My suggestion to them was to forget about it...

I was very excited when I heard that Lego was going to release a Farm theme. I am grown up on a Farm in Sweden where we had John Deere tractors and when i was a child I always wanted to build a John Deere in Lego. But tehre was no green bricks at the time... Well now I had something to base my MOC on and plenty of colors to choose from so this is the result. And with 7634 as a comparison More images available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/andersnolberg...57618234760586/ I have also built a trailer and a plough that I will add pictures of later.

I have tried but not got it yet. But I have done theese! They are from left to right Lightning, Sally, Mater (in the wrong color!) and Mack. More pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andersnolberg...57618147970681/ They are for my 2 year old son and is not up to standard of other Mocs on this site...

The others have stolen all the words! I really like this fantastic lighthouse.

Now that Lego has a license for Cars I suppose that this MOC of mine belongs in this theme. It is a model of Mater from the film. I saw this http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=369693 by Vincent Cheung in a blogg and was inspired. But I wanted to do something of my own so here is the result. More pictures can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andersnolberg...57618148882015/

I think it is a infrared transmitter/receiver so that it is possible to control your train with the NXT brick.

Thanks! I will order the parts and try it out then!

I am considering to get my old 171 train set running again. I do have a 4,5v motor for it but it is not working any more (it moves really slow and have a hight pitch sound). I was thinking of using the new power functions motor with IR receiver and the cheaper non rechargeable battery box (to reduce cost). But the power functions train motor 8866 is not available in Sweden and I can't find any for sale on Bricklink. I understand that the 9v motor should be usable to. How about the RC motor? It is cheaper on BrickLink. If it is possible to use it, what other parts do I need? Does the power cords work between systems? I will run on plastic rails. I have not decided if I will keep my existing blue rail or purchase new ones. If it works I will consider buying red wheels from Big Ben Bricks. Anders

It looks wonderful! They don't do the exact same wheels in yellow but there are alternatives that is the same height that fits perfect. It is only a little bit wider. For example this http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=56145 with this http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=44308.