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http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=11458

As I picture it the cylinder container of the "wormgear housing" does not need to be perfectly round it can have 2x1 bricks with pinholes and longitudinal beams reinforcing it, so the base can be well supported and the cylinder be rigid enough, after all two concentric "cylinders" compose it.

Isn't this a good candidate for the notable topics in the Technic and Model Team Index?

I was thinking In something like current LA Done this way So the only job of the metal rod is hold those parts in place. It could be hide with And it would not damage any part as it does not move. But part 3 needs to be done with custom parts, something similar to the one you linked but round and with matching grooves top and bottom so when stacked, the stack of parts turns as a whole. Then a cylinder holding the stack can be done with parts like this for example Or the more compact brick that I mentioned.... something roughly like... Excuse my awful modelling skills. As I said it is just an idea, don't know if its is worth further developing...

That engine picture is mesmerizing.

Reading some comments in the Jennifer Clark's Demag AC-50 Crane I was wondering how a big, "cheap", strong and of any length LA could be made, so I want to throw an idea. Threaded rods are readily available and cheap. So some ¿M4? perhaps hide inside a few parts like this one... .. and then a custom small part with pinhole threaded at one end of the rod and custom wormhole threaded at the other end of the rod could make the shaft? And this part with wormgear threading instead of cross axle so the wormgear could slide trough it. It would need to turn, so some casing -the cylinder- would be necessary but that could be achieved with current parts... Of course a custom 3x3 part could be designed to make the cylinder more compact with half pin holes on the sides. to reinforce with a beam on one side. I don't know if that would work, but something like that would allow any LA length as long as a suitable threaded rod were cut to appropiate length.

Some techniques were used in the past and the time test proved them to be wrong, making them obsolete or illegal.

You pretend to stand by the above ideal however If the above sentence is true what do you care about what others do? No matter how good you think your designs are, assuming that you are going to be copied is arrogant, and then are you vain enough to be worried about not getting recognition? Worst thing is being selfish enough to want the benefits of publishing MOCS like getting advice and learning but don't want to take any of the "risks". Not that considering there are "risks" is anything good either. An are you going to give recognition for every single idea you already took from others, perhaps over the years be it consciously or not? Summarizing: Bad boy.

Great work on the canvas cover, love it.

I don't care about what set as long as it features improved pneumatics, steering or suspension and does not behave like the Unimog.

This

IR is so last century.

Rounding is evil

As long as it is static I think it is ok.

Supposedly one unnecessary post asking for news, and then 10 even more unnecessary posts -including mine- complaining about the first one. Do you see the irony? However as the thread title is 2014 discussion and speculation and not 2014 news I guess all is good.

That is a creative use of Excel.

I can't believe what I see

You are wrongly assuming that MODing is necessarily improving Anyways I like this as a parts set.

Yup it is obviously outdated, as there are way more than six billion people and with a net growth of roughly 3 people per second vs more than 1000 parts per second that 62 figure is going up every day. I did like the idea for a contest, not really concerned with the exact number that only TLC can estimate at any given time...

I remember this: "Synthetic Bone Generation with LEGO"

I was procrastinating and by chance ended in the Wikipedia entry for Lego; a remark called my attention: "If all the Lego bricks ever produced were to be divided equally among a world population of six billion, each person would have 62 Lego bricks" So that could be a nice idea for a mini contest. What can you do with your 62 "bricks"?

This is getting serious. At some point I will need to open a new branch in my budget...

Since 8880 and for 20 years now TLC has been innovating with their impressive line of supercars.

You are right when you said mineral oil I though of synthetic oil. My fault here. Anyways on this kind of application not a big amount is needed and silicon oil is the perfect oil for everything Lego.

Mineral oil can react with ABS, use silicon oil instead.