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That sounds like you want his head chopped off!

I really don't think virtual computer models are at all useful when it comes to technic competitions. Technic is about functionality more so than it is about looks. A computer models shows you what something looks like, but whilst it might work theoreticly, it does not give any indication that it will work in the real world. Therefore a computer model will not give the judges enough of the information they need to accurately judge a model. Of course if you can get someone to build your model for you then you could submit it as a joint effort I suppose.

Yeah, the ground clearance doesn't look too bad and can easily be made better. PP wheels will also increase it slightly. You may have to replace the diffs with something else and increase the gearing down, but that's all good fun! The servo motor should make this very easy to manouver, perhaps better than any other trial truck if it is strong enough and has active return to centre capability.

Probably a good idea as I kinda think the current title is a little misleading. I don't really consider parts being discontinues/reissued in a specific colour to be the same as parts being discontinues/reissued as a whole

I think the lever is a lie! But if it's functional I guess it could be used to select between steering modes. A simple reversing gearbox could be used to give it 3 modes of steering, 4 wheel, 2 wheel and crab steer. Although that depends on how far the servo turns and if it's enough to make the backlash in the synchromesh/slip gears negligable.

It's somewhere in the middle, it's visable in one of the pictures, can't remember where.

you're probably more qualified than any of us

Ah well in that case, count me in!

Damb i'de like to do that. It's just a lack of time thing. For the next few months at least I won't even have the time to make MOCs myself. Oh well

Yeah, I think it is also just part of the motor, but just doing some quick sketches i've found it is easily possible to have that as a separate piece and (even with it's tiny size and pin holes in the front) have muliple stages of sturdy planetary gear reduction inside. Now that would be waaaaaay cool because you could have it as a really fast, completely ungeared motor, or a slow motor just by adding this gearbox, or you could use the gearbox on it's own to add planetary gear reduction in other tiny places, like inside a wheel hub. There does seem to be enough mounting points on both parts of the motor for them to be separate and for each to still be left with enough mounting points each. But whilst it is easily possible, very plausible and awesome if it is a separate removeable gearbox, it probably isn't.

He says motor holder. So could the front of the L-motor be a separate piece? I kinda looks like it, but what's its purpose? No other motor needs a holder in front of it, unless it's actually a tiny reduction gearbox. I don't think it is but that would be great if it was because it means the actual motor has a very high output speed (like i've wanted since 1997) with the option of having a lower output speed for those who prefere the slower speeds of the current motors therefore having the best of both worlds.

Yeah, I remember that, inspired me to make my own working version, could not be bothered with the bodywork tho http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=473387

Great job revearse engineering a flagship. Yeah, looks like the new L-motors are not really any better, certainly not much faster than the m-motor. I really hope the new servo is still what i'de hoped for.

Comparing this with the video of the rock crawler they actually look to be the same speed. If that's the case does this mean the new L-motor isn't really that dissimilar in speed to the m-motor I was hoping for at least 1500 rpm at the very slowest from the new L-motor

I think you need to replace the middle two grey pins with two 3 long pins with centre hole, you can then mount the suspention onto them. This will give you more room.

Yup, those are the ones.

Not this year, but I asked for a pump that would fit better with the hole spacing of beams, and we got it in the unimog. I asked for a very fast L-motor and a servo motor and now it seems we have those (hopefully the L-motor won't have ANY internal reduction) so maybe we'll get longer pneumatics and synchromesh gears coming in a range of sizes in the coming years .

I think the colour scheme is perfectly suited to the rock crawler. It is supposed to look colourful and brash and bold. I also think that stickers are a good thing here because if I want to use those white panels in a space shuttle for instance, I would not want to have a giant "4X4" printed in red on the side, so it's good that you can just peel them off. YEY for more white pieces! The helicopter is looking better here than in the original pictures. Can't wait to see what functionalty the main rotor has. I wonder if it has both cyclic and collective control. I hope so as these functions can be achived even without all that bulky rotor mechanism. Also love the new rotor blades

Where did you hear this? If you found this out for yourself, how many of each pump did you test? 20? 30?

The shape of the motor in the axle, the gearing going to it and the bulkyness of the axle suggest to me a couple things, all of which might be completely wrong It suggests to me that it is a drive motor that is very fast. The shape of the outer case only really makes sence if it is the shape of the motor inside of it (a very common shape for motors). IF this is true then there does not seem to be much room, if any, for internal gear reduction. Being 4 studs wide (or tall in the picture) suggests quite a large internal motor. The gearing going up to the motor, can also be traced downwards to the same level as the differencial (if it has one). Other reduction gearing can also be seen, there looks like two stages of reduction after the differencial, not just the one stage found in the hub that is the same as the unimog. There is also room in that huge axle for more reduction gearing. I could be wrong but I hope i'm right, I like lots of fast spinning gears and if I am right, could this mean a return for belt drives and so on

Yeah, in my 130 sets or so only one of them had a missing piece, that's a better than 99% accuracy. Looking at the parts list posted elsewhere, you should have three 13 long beams in black. Also looking at the pictures I can only see black beams around the areas you describe. Sorry friend, guess you have a missing beam (unless you have used a black one where you should have used a dark grey one!). Fear not, Legos customer services are great in these situations.

Well, I would tell you how impressed I am with this, but they haven't invented a word for that yet .

It's gear has 28 teeth, so it's the same size as the current differentials outer gear.

Looks like it would be great for high speed applications, where you don't want any friction in the drive train to slow it down. Would be perfect for a 4X4X4 supercar.

True, the added gear won't fall out, but the torque of the differentail is not being transmitted to that gear, only the other gear on the pin, so all the strain is still on that one gear. But it does at least look more realistic.