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@ Bobot: Welcome to Eurobricks! Your stair-climbing robot is fun to watch!

Wow, the trucks on barebos' YouTube and are fantastic! Thanks for pointing them out, Ralph_S !

aryogono posted many pictures of his IMPERIAL DEATH SQUADRON on his Flickr photostream. They are set on a display table to form a multi-layered, 3-dimensional array of AWESOME FIREPOWER:

@ grepin: After some digging, I found my 40 ea., JPG scans of the Code Pilot Instructions on BrickFactory Pages 181-220 for the 8479 Barcode Truck. It's a good thing that they are there, because I already deleted the individual JPG scans off of my hard drive, now that I have the (smaller) PDF file.

Here are the links to download Grohl's Building Instructions in PDF file format (via MegaUpload) SkyDrive: Grohl's 8052-3 Tow Truck Alternate (15.8 MB) Grohl's BlueTongue Offroader (5.3 MB) [P.S. I am using the 30-day FREE TRIAL of Adobe Acrobat X Pro software to create these PDFs from the various JPG files. You can do the same thing with your images by going to the Adobe site here, and downloading the free trial software. Maybe you can upload your PDFs onto MegaUpload.com too for sharing with other AFOLs. Normally, this software sells for $199 so I'm scrambling to compile many images before my 30-day period ends].

[bUMP] As Mahjqa had noted above, sunsky/ sunmint1 had made Building Instructions to motorize the "Limited Edition -- Hard to Find" 8041 Race Truck (still available from Shop.Lego.com ). I have compiled his individual JPG images into a single, 6.7MB PDF file which you can download here from MegaUpload SkyDrive. His shows him driving the "LEGO 8041 truck...motorized with Power Functions remote control. This is a simple modification with less change in the chassis and overall shape." Read more about it on this Korean-to-English translation of his original BrickInside post.

We digress a bit from the original topic, but if you want to restore your yellowed Lego bricks, there is this Oxyclean method outlined in this Eurobricks post. "BEFORE" and "AFTER" PICTURES:

On this Eurobricks post, one can see a Power Functions (PF) adapter (made by NewBatteryGuy) that allows one to connect a PF Receiver directly to a 9V battery. His video talks about Lego PF TRAINS, but the same adapter could be very useful for PF TECHNIC creations. A picture of it appears below. "It's an adapter that connects the Lego infrared receiver to a 9v battery. It's very handy because it replaces the 50 dollar rechargeable battery box from Lego. Instead you can buy this adapter and a 5 dollar rechargeable 9V battery." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjZoymaYkY Philo's Lego 9V Technic Motor Comparison page shows that the 9V PF Train Motor has a no-load current of 90 mAH. The PF Medium Motor has a no-load current of 60 mAH, and the PF XL Motor has a no-load current of 80 mAH (both less than the PF Train Motor). The STALLED CURRENT for the PF Train Motor is 1.3 Amps (higher than the PF Medium Motor's 850 mA, but less than the PF XL Motor's 1.8 Amps). NewBatteryGuy stated on his YouTube video description that a "250 mAh Battery Lasted 1 Hr 20 Min at speed 2. Over 30 Mins at full speed. So, one could conclude that since the PF Train Motor draws more current than the PF Medium motor, that one could run a PF Medium Motor for WELL OVER 30 minutes. I know that 30 minutes is not a long time, but how many minutes do you actually "play" with your MOC? 5 minutes? Think of all of the small PF cars one could make if the BATTERY were small....

You know that when many kids finished building the 8275 Motorized Excavator, they soon made a TANK out of the same parts:

Although my Code Pilot instruction scans are indeed on Brickfactory.info (BrickFactory pages 181-220) , If you want to avoid having to download 40 different individual JPG images, you can download a single, 18.7MB PDF document that I placed here on MegaUpload SkyDrive .

There are a lot of Linear Actuators in your MOC, so I presume that this was entered into the March 2011 Lego Technic Challenge. It looks like a Liebherr to me.

NewBatteryGuy posted this YouTube video on how to use a regular 9V battery with the Power Functions components to power the 10194 Emerald Night. He wrote that "It's an adapter that connects the Lego infrared receiver to a 9v battery. It's very handy because it replaces the 50 dollar rechargeable battery box from Lego. Instead you can buy this adapter and a 5 dollar rechargeable 9V battery." "Buy The Adapter Here: http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=bat_chavez&itemID=22828531 250mAh Battery Lasted 1 Hr 20 Min at speed 2. Over 30 Mins at full speed. When you buy your batteries make sure the charger matches the battery type. Connecting the motor directly to a battery will not work, you need the receiver and controller." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjZoymaYkY

As noted on Parda's Lego Delicatessen, Khan posted his Lego Technic PILATUS PC-21 Training Airplane on SeTechnic [French to English translation]. Functions include: * Wings with dihedron (the wings are not flat, they form an angle of 3° to the horizontal) * Detailed Cockpit * Propeller with 5 blades * Retractable three-wheeled landing gear assembly * Swing bar acting on the tail and the caster of nose. * Aelirons * Stabilizer, with adjustment of the trim * Ejector seats * Louvers with slit Read more about it on SeTechnic.

On his Flickr photostream, sunskyTechnic/ sunmint1 posted his "City Hunter" -- "A small technic MOC car presented to [12th BrickInside Creation Contest] in Mar 2011. More photos can be found on BrickInside Contest page [translated to English from the original Korean text] and there's a ." It uses an interesting front "steering idea to reduce the wheel space (where the tire moves)": It "separates on a large scale at three modules before, center and after. Also the door or the seat separates separately": There is too much to list here -- see much more on BrickInside. :thumbup:

It does not have to be a MODERN Supercar, necessarily. What about these cars from the past that were "way ahead of their time"? 1934 Duesenberg SJ "Mormon Meteor": 1955 Jaguar D-Type: Or, it can be some one-of-a-kind DREAM CAR, like these:

@ ale8oneboy: Yes, as Trainee said, LDD Manager can create a Parts Inventory list from your Lego Digital Designer (LDD) .lxf file. It works well and saves LOTS OF TIME when assembling your Bricklink.com shopping list.

Hmmm, I went to the Lego Technic Challenge Official Rules and Regulations webpage to see if there were any changes to address the plagiarism problem. All it says is this: "Before you can enter the Challenge you need to accept the Rules and Regulations below: INSERT TERMS AND CONDITIONS HERE!"

I would like to see the 2908 "Technic Helicopter Rotor Holder" (pictured below), so one can build REALISTIC, fully-functional helicopters like the ones discussed in today's Lego Technic Designers Blog. Lars Krogh Jensen answers the question "How Does a Helicopter Fly" with detailed drawings. He wrote, "An important mechanism is the ‘swash plate that is used to control is the angle of the blades. The swash plate is made from two plates where one is fixed and one is rotating. The direction stick pushes one side of the swash plate upwards or downwards to change the pitch angle of the blades unevenly. This will change the angle of the blades depending on where they are in the cyclic rotation. This gives more angle on one side of the helicopter and will make the helicopter tip. By controlling this swash plate the pilot is able to tip the helicopter to go in the direction he wants."

This policy is getting another look. See the fine print below. The "Toy Story 3" movie featured TOY soldiers, and it spawned Set 7595 (Army Men On Patrol). A variation of that set appears in the green picture below. Well, since the toy soldier minifigs are Lego "toys of (other) toys", the logical extension would be to make some additional toys for THOSE TOYS (i.e., for the soldier minifigures). A small, minifig-sized MICRO TANK (with Technic Links and Liftarms) is being considered.... [Fine Print: For more about today's happenings, see this. ]

On his Brickshelf gallery, nuno2500 posted 6 pictures of his Lego Technic "Thin Racer" Power Functions chassis that uses "NO bricks or beams". It is held together by Lego Technic Axles, Connectors, and the various Power Functions elements. It's got return-to-center steering (using the x928cx1 "Technic, Axle Connector Rectangular Triple Spring-Loaded" part), independent suspension, and two Power Functions (PF) Medium motors. Since it is relatively light, it could be quite nimble, but do you think it would hold up in a Truck Trial?

bekesizoltan/ gonzalez/ Zoli has his Brickshelf folder public now, and one can see 111 BIG pictures of his Lego Technic Porsche 911 Turbo. Here is one view showing the windshield area, for garson's benefit:

[bUMP] Here is the set of four Technic Idea Books (8888, 8889, 8890, and 8891) in PDF format. You can download them from MegaUpload via the hyperlinks below. EDIT: The first three are available in PDF form on Worldbricks (see hyperlinks below). Flip through the pages to reminisce about your youth, or make some MODERN, STUDLESS versions of the various studded creations shown.... Lego Technic 8888 Idea Book (Expert Builder) from 1980 (100 pages, 9.5 MB PDF document) Lego Technic 8889 Idea Book from 1984 (116 pages, 23.8 MB PDF document) Lego Technic 8890 Idea Book from 1988 (52 pages, 4 MB PDF document) Lego Technic 8891 Idea Book from 1991 (100 pages, 14 MB PDF document)

Good detective work!

I converted the 509 PAGES of Alban's Building Instructions into six PDF documents for easy portability and printing. Alban had made a series of photos in a sequence. I have numbered the pages 1-509 inside of the document, and the overall file sizes are MUCH SMALLER with PDFs instead of JPGs. You can download them from these MegaUpload SkyDrive hyperlinks below. Each booklet is 6-8 MB in size: Booklet 1 Booklet 2 Booklet 3 Booklet 4 Booklet 5 Booklet 6

@ xikin: I have uploaded the entire, 100-page Lego Technic 8888 Idea Book PDF scan document onto MegaUpload SkyDrive. You (and anybody else) can retrieve the 9.3MB file here . Here is Page 29 (courtesy of Brickfactory.info ) showing the Harvester. All of the individual page scans are there; I combined them into one PDF to make it easier to flip through the steps and to print them out.