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@ JunkstyleGio: With your mods to the 9394 Jet Plane, can the landing gear still fit into the fuselage when folded? Can the plane now "rotate" for takeoff/landing without striking its tail on the "runway"? P.S. I got "The Cult of Lego" book for Christmas and it features your vignette on Page 23. I agree with you -- the only best genres are "LEGO TECHNIC, LEGO TECHNIC, and LEGO TECHNIC!"

You cannot resize your pictures on Brickshelf unless the .JPGs that you load there are no larger than 800x600 pixels. I like using Flickr because: 1) You can right-click on any photo and select SEVERAL DIFFERENT SIZES of picture to hyperlink into Eurobricks. 2) Others have IMMEDIATE access to the picture without having to "Deeplink" the pictures or wait for Brickshelf moderators to screen the photos. 3) You can add extensive descriptions, tags, hyperlinks, etc. that are impossible in Brickshelf.

[bUMP] Serge9591 made a STUDLESS adaptation (version) of the 8460 Lego Technic Pneumatic Crane Truck for a SeTechnic contest, and posted this :

Jurgen Krooshoop's "Ultimate 8043" has been added to Rebrickable.

You are the Clockmeister! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZPrVkk3i4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MamUo3JUq0Y

Consider the crude Lego Helicopter in zcontube's below. If it DID ACTUALLY RAISE off the ground, would the doubters out there consider it to be a REAL FLYING LEGO vehicle? Or, would they quibble and say that:1) The electric cable tether is controlling the flight path. 2) The battery box needs to be part of the Helicopter and lift into the air too 3) The batteries in the NXT are not Lego-brand, and they need to be 100% Lego (like the Power Functions Rechargeable Battery Box provides)? It's frustrating the people keep "moving the goalposts". I'm done with this topic.

The V-22 Osprey IS FLYING HORIZONTALLY because it meets this definition of "Flight" -- "Flight is the process by which an object moves either through an atmosphere (especially the air) or beyond it (as in the case of spaceflight) by generating lift or propulsive thrust, or aerostatically using buoyancy, or by simple ballistic movement." I dare people to refute that. There is nothing in this definition (or any other, OFFICIAL definition of "Flight") that talks about needing to support 100% of its weight VERTICALLY while it is flying HORIZONTALLY. Look at the Wikipedia article again.

To all doubters: Do a Google search for the term "Flight", and pick whatever online dictionary you like. Quote verbatim some text that refutes what I quoted from the Wikipedia definition of "flight". Those who claim that the model is not "flying" are basing their statements on their own opinions, not official definitions. Let's use scientific principles and be precise about exactly what "flight" is and is not. Thank you.

Yes, people saw it in this Eurobricks post (under the name m43photo).

I had sent a Eurobricks Private Message (PM) to legolijntje, and he wrote back that one can download the ENTIRE SET of PDF Building Instructions for the Lego 8547 Mindstorms NXT 2.0 set in a 50.3-MB ZIP file: "You can just download it here: DOWNLOAD LINK TO DROPBOX SkyDrive. Please read the README file. I hope you'll like it -- Merlijn" It contains the Building Instructions for: 1) Alpha Rex 2.0 (pictured earlier in this topic) 2) Color Sorter 3) Robo Gator 4) Shooterbot

I compiled all of Grohl's 127 photo-sequence Building Instructions of his Lego Technic Carrod into one 5-MB PDF file which you can download here via MegaUpload SkyDrive. Grohl wrote that it was his "first hot-rod in the colour of a carrot. 21cm 495g 3 M motors, return-to-center steering, opening doors. Maximum speed 13 kph." :

Interesting modification! Does that 9395 Pick-Up Tow Truck have enough strength to lift up a car's front wheels? How heavy a load do you think it can handle?

[bUMP] "Does Anyone Know What Is Going On With Crowkillers? Very Odd Message" (seen today on his website): COMING SOON...

@ Legoroni: Well, it looks like your Lego Power Functions Medium Motor is burned-out. You can get a new one (Part 8883) on Shop.Lego.com here for US $7.49, or via Bricklink (Part Number 58120c01). If you want to be adventurous, you can attempt to pry your PF Medium motor apart, like Brian Davis did with his PF XL motor (as documented on Philo's Power Functions Motor Presentation webpage):

About 4/5ths of the way down the Big Ben Bricks Gallery, there is a picture of a "BR23 Steam Engine by Jose Carlos....Jose has built a nice copy of Ben Beneke's BR23. I like this picture for it highlight the use of Technic flex system connectors for the connecting rods with short sections of rigid tubing around the flex cable. Reference part numbers 6642 6643 and bb08c04L on Bricklink. Note: This design is originally done as a real MOC and in ldraw by Reinhard 'Ben' Beneke as farther down in the Gallery." (See second picture below)

...but one could wish for something like this anyway -- CP5670's "Annihilator" (from Blakbird's Brickshelf Gallery):

Yes indeed, Barman (Barry Bosman) has great ideas for Lego Technic pieces -- see this Eurobricks post for discussion and pictures. Barman also an idea of "Parts to Couple Linear Actuators" (which possibly could be adapted to handle pneumatic cylinders) -- see this Eurobricks topic. Allanp has this Eurobricks topic about "New [Lego Technic] Pneumatic Parts I'd Like to See."

In his Brickshelf gallery, Blakbird has made this render of the underside of the 8110. Note the direction of the central differential:

His 16:22 discusses these topics:1. New Lego Technic sets that just came out (in December 2011). 2. New Technic sets coming out in 2012. 3. Talk with Andy Milluzzi (Lego Mindstorms NXT Space Shuttle project builder -- see the second below).4. NXT-G Blog discussion of RS-485 Function in NXT brick. 5. New sensors from Mindsensors, HiTechnic, and Dexter Industries.

I know some German and sent a Eurobricks Private Message (PM) to ust60/Udo, and I asked him to send me his LDD file of this German V100 locomotive. Here is his reply (in a rough translation from German to English): "Good morning on the last Christmas Day, please excuse my bad English, I have to use the Google Translation Program....[attached] is one lxf file. The V 100 is the first model, I built the real, after I designed it with LDD, it is very unstable. I lacked experience, please do not consider it final solution; please consider it a first draft. I wish you much fun while improving." I have placed his 47-kB LDD .lxf file here (for downloading via MegaUpload).

@ Alasdair Ryan: pcility has many photos of his fully-motorized 8110 Lego Technic Unimog U400 set on his Brickshelf gallery. He posted a set of three YouTube videos about the conversion; I can only display two of them here. : (shown below) and (which you'll have to view separately by clicking on the hyperlink):

Wow, what a nice MOC! It is good to see the Lego Technic Clutch Gear used so effectively in this locomotive.

You may have to look at the 8110 Building Instructions Booklet 2, pages 54-57, to discover what you may have done wrong in constructing and mounting the inline-4 engine.