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Crtlego noticed that six months ago, Italian AFOL sephirot8082 posted this of his Lego Technic Kenworth T800 TS Town Truck. It has:* Full movement * Power Functions Receiver * Double Steering * Movement forwards and backwards * Full shock absorbers on front and rear * Double lifting cables with large Technic metal hook with independent motors * Motorized air pump and airtank * Four Power Functions Receivers * Seven PF Medium Motors * One PF XL Motor * Eleven pneumatic cylinders 48 mm * Sixteen PF LED Lights * Ten 1x4 electric light * Two 9V PF Battery Boxes * Sixteen 68.8 x 24 Lego Tires on Model Team-type wheels * A lot of chrome bricks! See 30 BIG photos on his Brickshelf gallery. Click on the thumbnails below to see them in FULL SIZE.

Rien posted his test results of using an 11.1-volt LiPo battery in his Power Functions creation, with (apparently) no ill effects: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=59506&st=0&p=1061034&hl=volt&fromsearch=1entry1061034 . If you want to try a 11.1-Volt LiPo battery pack on FOUR Lego RC Buggy Motors, understand that a single Lego Power Functions REceiver will kick in its thermistor Overload Protection. From the official Lego Power Functions website, Frequently-Asked Question/Answer #12 says: "Q12. What happens when the Power Functions overload protection kicks in? A: Overload protection is activated when too much power is consumed from either a Power Functions Battery Box or the IR Receiver. This can happen when a motor is blocked or when too many motors are running at the same time. If overload protection is activated, the Battery Box or the IR Receiver will cut off power to the output until power consumption has dropped under the allowed value. To regain power, unblock the motor or disconnect motors from the output – then turn the Battery Box OFF and ON again. Under overload protection, the green light on the Power Functions Battery Box will still be ON." This is I would heed Sariel's advice -- don't use more than two RC Buggy Motors. But, if you insist on trying FOUR Buggy Motors, don't be surprised if your creation "dies" within a few seconds after you apply the power.

@ ATonOfBricks: Read Aanchir's post about the Complete Lego Digital Designer (LDD) Color Chart.

@ rm8: Jurgen Krooshoop made a Lego "Small Red RC Racecar" with Building Instructions -- see it here on JurgensTechnicCorner. It has a "RC race-buggy motor with 2:1 gear reduction."

Nice modifications! You can insert your Flickr photos yourself by right-clicking on your image, selecting the "Medium" picture size (no larger than 800x600 pixels), and then right-clicking on the resultant photo to see the "Properties" of that photo. Copy the URL text of that photo's Properties, and then insert that URL into the "Insert Media" button that you see on the extreme right side of the menu bar in your Eurobricks "Reply". It's 7 icons to the right of the smiley-face:

@ davidmull: Try this direct link to sewgway's 12-minute YouTube video on "How to Motorize the Lego 8070 Supercar": . Does the video "not work" for you because of the Pepe Romero music that's part of the video?

@ rm8: Have you seen Grohl's orange Carrod? It has Building Instructions , and it has a maximum speed of 13 kph (which is quick). If you mount some SMOOTH wheels (like 1nxtmonster did in his of his Lego Drift Racer below), you will have lots of fun:

In an attempt to obtain the LDD .lxf file, I e-mailed Sascha Mehlhase, and he replied: "Hi David, thanks for your interest … as we are currently in discussions with LEGO about various things, we want to keep the model closed for the moment. But I will post the design file on my webpage at some later point and you can take it from there. Hope that helps you. Cheers Sascha"

Using Blakbird's Brickshelf renders of the 8110 Unimog U400 drivetrain, where exactly is this 24-tooth gear that is grinding away? Can you describe its location -- front, middle, or rear/ Top or Bottom View? Is it a single-bevel or double-bevel gear? TOP VIEW BOTTOM VIEW

According to Philo's "LEGO 9V Technic Motor Compared Characteristics" webpage, the Power Functions has a "Stalled Torque" of 40 Newton-centimeters (N-cm) compared to the 5292 RC Buggy Motor's 12 N-cm. Moreover, the PF XL motor draws 1.8 Amps at the "Stalled Current" load, while the 5292 RC Buggy Motor draws a whopping 3.2 Amps (which often trips the thermistor current regulator).

I like how you used the 53178 "Pneumatic Cylinder Bracket" on the back:

"Here's some key features: •about 9500 pieces •roughly 1:50 in scale (close to scale with the LEGO® man) •material cost of about 2000 Euros (payed by the high energy physics group at the Niels Bohr Institute) •about 1 m x 0.5 m x 0.5 m in size •approximately 33 hours construction time (spread out over several weekends and after hours) •around 48 hours to build the 3D model (a one-timer though)" Wow, the builder (Sascha Mehlhase) designed this using Lego Digital Designer (LDD) and ordered the 9,500 parts through DesignByMe! That must have set a record for a single MOC: He may post the LDD .lxf file: "I do not have a straight forward construction manual yet, but I am working on it!"

in RUSSIAN:

Yes -- there's this of it, with a link to this webpage: "In recent days it has been speaking a lot of the Riggs boson, or the so-called “particle of God”, as it is called the elusive subatomic particle that physicists have tried to discover for almost 50 years, because it is a key element in the structure of the standard model of physics and kept the secret that everyone linked to science strives to unveil: the reason for the mass in the particles."To achieve its discovery, physicists have used two large collides of hadrons (or particle accelerators) called ATLAS and CM, but this time do not come to tell you about them, but rather another large Hadron Collier very peculiar. "It’s created by the Danish physicist Sascha Multiphase, researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, who spent more than 80 hours of their time to design and create a large of Hadron Collier made from LEGO pieces, based on the model of the ATLAS. "This time, it took 48 hours to design the ATLAS in your laptop, with the help of LEGO Digital Designer software. With the help of his wife, Multiphase spent 33 hours placing, piece by piece, the 9,500 blocks of LEGO that had used in its large Hadron, in order to give a finish full of small details that make it look like a true work of art. "The scale of this large of Hadron Collier made from LEGO pieces is 1: 50. Even this Danish physicist gave labor put some small LEGO toys to represent the scientists at CERT, and thus reproduce their work more accurately. "Only in LEGO pieces, Multiphase spent $2,600, which had to order at a Danish toy. Any of you would be willing to create a similar work?"

mbmc137 has "motorized" his Lego Technic 8466 4x4 Off Roader set, and posted 26 pictures of it on his Brickshelf gallery. He wrote that it is a "8466 fully motorized with PF and updated. Now it has four wheel steering for smaller turn circle. It is a very hard challenge to motorize it, this suspension is not for that, so it is not perfect, but very playable." His e-mail address is in his Brickshelf folder for you to find out more. In addition, he has posted links there to three Windows Media Video (WMV) files.

@ chaosof99: You'll have to decide the distribution of fishing line over the wings and fuselage: CLOSE TOGETHER: The airplane will respond to light touches and wind to "fly" and wiggle. FAR APART: The airplane will stay in place when windows are open, and will not rotate. Either way, test the setup when the planes are only a few centimeters off of the carpet (in case the unnatural stress releases some of the Technic Bricks/Liftarms and Technic Pins). Proper FISHING KNOTS are important to ensure that the monofilament does not slide apart over time.

@ sofo13th: Whoa, this is tiny! I imported your LDD file and when I opened it up, there are three NanoWalkers shown. Which one is the Mk. II -- the one on the bottom-right of the LDD screen? Do you think that your NanoWalkers could work wirelessly if it had a 9V Battery riding "piggy back" (with this adapter) together with a Power Functions Receiver?

In this Eurobricks topic, Lego AFOLs have reported good results from using Oxyclean to brighten their Lego bricks. Here are the before-and-after pictures:

@ Saberwing40k: sewgway posted this detailed, 12-minute on a ""Simple Step-by-Step Guide on How To Motorize the Lego Technic 8070 Supercar. The standard 8070 is a remarkable set, has lots of interesting functions and realistic features. This video is aimed at those who are tired of the standard model and want some extra features. You will need the standard 8070 Supercar set, plus:* 1 [Lego Power Functions] XL motor * 1 IR [infrared] Receiver * Some Technic Liftarms and axles * A pair of scissors You may also want to consider PCTS99's two-part YouTube video set on "Lego 8070 Supercar with extra PF motors to steer and drive detail view." and (showing it in action).

Although that truck is 1-1/2 years old, it is good to admire his along with the 20 Brickshelf pictures and MOCpages article:

@ Smrgol: You really should consider buying from Bricklink.com . It is the "Unofficial Lego Marketplace", and you can use its "Catalog" function to find EXACTLY what you want. There are vendors selling parts worldwide -- even in your country. It is more cost-effective to buy the parts you need than whole sets (which tends to waste money on parts you don't want/need). eBay is also another way of getting some good deals. I like searching for "Lego Technic Incomplete" to find GOOD SETS that are missing just a few parts. The bids end up being low on those auctions, and one can get the missing parts via Bricklink.

Conchas has completed his TechnicBRICKS TechReview of the Lego Technic 9395 Pick-Up Tow Truck set. It also discusses the newly-molded Technic Triangle and Technic Engine Cylinder parts.

Yes, Superkalle's LDD Manager is very useful in creating a Lego Parts List. It creates an Excel file; you can download a free Excel Viewer from Microsoft if you don't have that software. I use this free online PDF Converter; don't worry that it says Microsoft "Word to PDF Converter" -- it works with MS Excel too. It sends the completed PDF to your e-mail inbox in just a few minutes.

I work at an Air Force base, and there are quite a few model aircraft hanging from the ceilings in certain work cubicles there. Heavy-duty fishing line (monofilament) works the best, since it is thin and relatively invisible. You'll have to find the center of gravity (CG) of each Lego aircraft model, then tie the fishing line to several points to balance the model's wings and fuselage properly. You may want to tie several individual loops of monofilament around the wings and fuselage, and then "bunch them" at the top where a single fishing line can go upwards to the ceiling hook. The model's weight will be spread out so that the Lego bricks won't break apart. I'm a freshwater fisherman too. Recommend that you learn how to tie some Fishing Knots, since mono is VERY SLIPPERY and will slide apart with common knots used with ropes. P.S. You may want to seeBlakbird's Technicopedia for pictures of the various Lego Technic Airplanes:

This link (which you passed over above) shows the "INVentory" of the 8297 set, and those of the other 4 Lego Technic sets that have that tire. The 8297 Off Roader has 1,096 parts.