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Is that a Lego plane wing?

7700/41 => 1:187 ?

Just 100%, over 100% is producing energy. But we don't need 100% efficiency right? Just efficient enougth to be amazing, like that contraption. Now I wonder, if that is an estimated 80%+ efficiency, how much is possible with Lego? Is it possible to create something like that and have it running for minutes?

As long as i can look at it and procrastinate hour after hour.... it is doing its work!! IMHO for such an application adding energy to the system is acceptable as long as it can run for a finite but undefined -read more than a few seconds- amount of time. Like this?

But then it isn't an infinite vaccum...

But those weight a ton.

These guns always amaze me. How is people willing to spend 20 times the firing time loading it! Anyways really nice design, cool skull.

Correct me if I am wrong, but perpetual motion is the norm indeed, isnt It? It is just friction and other energy loses that prevent that for happening. I thougth that in an infinite vacuum a moving marble would move forever in a straight line at constant velocity.

There is no need to be so harsh, after all it is not completly off topic.

I don't have a problem with the wheels, the metal frame, the compressed air source, or how the engine drives the wheels, but the video was not that good and so I did not get too excited. I mean, yeah I understood what I was looking at but with no details, internals or comentary...well it barely got span attention beyond the last kitten youtube video. I find way more interesting those pictures that ninjasno just show us than the video. And of course with so many questions and little info available the "I can tell is photoshopped by the pixels" comments ensued.

You are right.

My Playmobil collection was huge when I was a child and loved to combine it with Lego. Sadly I grow up and my mother decided back then to give it all away, she had no chance with my Lego thougth. Oh! now I am remembering my Playmobil sets! Castle, Fort, couple pirate ships, an amazing mobile crane. couple police boats. Some kind of unimog. Motorbikes, speedboat, a gas station!, skid steer loader and many more, lots of machinary. Sadly never got then train So many Lego buildings destroyed in Playmobil wars... Sorry for the off topic, fond memories.

Let me fix that for you: The bad aspect of digital photography is that you can take a zillion images and get immediate frustation and feedback. Yup thta sounds more like it when I am holding a camera. Anyways what key parts for chassis are unavailable at the moment? Those two frames, both unimog and 42000 hubs, the new bone frame.. anything else?

Hmm, difussion, hot lights, exposure... for most of us you are describing a big issue with black photography.

No wonder current boxes are dumped, those are crap. The difference in cost for current "orange boxes" and 41999 can't be that big, and I kept 41999 because is usable while the orange ones go straight to trash.

I miss those boxes too, 8860 was really nice. Not sure how much a box like that can add to price but for flagships they could make boxes like those again.

I just got a set of these but I am not able to test it by now. The rubber compound isn't very soft and is not as grippy as the RC4WD rock crusher. I think quality is a bit lower than the Gmade ones and not close at all to the RC4WD but given the price no complains.

So is it fine tunning "social" and "consolidation" threads management? Easier said than done.

For 3D printing Shapeways or a similar service can be "cost effective". Btw anyone knows a good 3D printing service in Europe? What about RC motors, I know that is overkill for Lego gears, but anyways... The problem I found was finding a gear compatible with Lego or attaching a Lego gear to the motor axle.

Unebelievable

Recently I joked about DrJB threads beign moved and I'd like to make an observation about 'general/social' threads. Even if Eurobricks is one entity as a whole, I think many people like me rarely move out of their area of interest, in my case Technic. so I rarely find myself out of the LEGO Technic, Mindstorms & Model Team Theme. Beign so it creates a weird situation the fact that there is no clear place for 'general/social' threads exclusively focused in the community I am interested most, If someone wants to ask what sets you like, dislike, got, lost, colors prefer, how you sort, classify, etc etc etc. It may look like something general enougth to not to pertain to a theme, but it may not be necessarily so. I just feel the General is too General for some General topics. After all I don't really care that much about your Lego Friends sets This might be related to the Technic community growing and putting a bit of strain on the current design. I guess Technic might be a little bigger than Minifig customization ... right? edit: Btw if general topics are a necessary evil, I think they need to be pinned. No point in having to browse to find them specially those that arent that frequently used like the mindstorms one.

Pizza and icecream made me the person I am today! And it is taking a lot of running to fix that For some time I missed 853 but every set has become a parts set for me, so I no longer miss sets, just parts, and bricklink helps with that.

I mean that a "General Technic" -or whatever- subforum where topics are not mixed/consolidated.but are naturally grouped by beign in a subforum, looks like a better tool to avoid that specific scenario.

I don't own any bad Lego set, or don't feel that I do. Even when things like Unimog steering happen, I don't consider them bad, Uh oh I made a couple Technic swords using my 16 stud beams , my little brother got a little bit too enthusiatic about it, and well... you know those movies where the hero slices througth the villain sword? I needed some superglue to rebuild my 8860.

Yes it is just that sometimes in general threads the questions overlap -in time, not theme- and answers get mixed and topic becomes hard to follow, and suddenly it becomes a mess until those topics fall into oblivion and a new question is posted. When that happens a subforum looks like a better tool for the matter.