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That's very informative, thankyou.

I doubt it, even with a 100% efficient mechanicle system the unimog is too big (NOT a bad thing!). Another reason why TLG need to release a powerful PF servo motor!

Yeah, imajine what they would say if we corrected it by calling them simple!

What dark grey/lig.......noooooooooooooooooo!

Yes

Are the pictures here enough to build mine? if not, then I might do some more diagrams if you like. BTW, strangly this model is still built so more diagrams should not be too hard, and i've since changed the design of the rotor head (thanks to one of your previous writings) to make it more realistic. The whole head no longer tilts, the blades just change pitch as the head turns. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=420770

I think it's in my profile, but i'm in the UK (not good, but at least we still have the pound ).

Like I said, for some strange reason Just kidding

For some strange reason, Brickest automatically adds a score of 2.5 to every review. So the only way for the unimog to have an average score of 4.2 is if the 2 people who actually voted gave it 5 out of 5 ((5 + 5 + 2.5)/3) = 4.167 (or 4.2 when rounded).

Did the pneumatic system work fine with the manual pump? If yes, you likely have a dodgy motor pump and need to contact consumer services.

My opinion (for what it's worth!) 8880 is still the best, then this car in second, then 8448 in third, which is a HUGE achievement considering this uses no new parts like the other two. But (and take note TLG!) considering that TLG DOES have the ability to create new parts to make their sets better, I would expect a new flagship supercar from them today to be better than the 8880.

Personally I would say it's good value. For 160 quid you get over 2000 technic parts, motor, batterybox, pneumatics and lots of new and useful parts and it's pretty huge!

I did notice it but I have to ask, where did you hear this?

I love what i'm hearing from Efferman and Nazgarot! As I said in another similar topic: It could be a great set for introducing new parts (like how the bulldozer from 2007 was really simple mechanicly, but was a good platform for releasing thye PF system). Ok so my ideal forklift would have: two new high speed motors (no internal gearing making for lots of cool drive trains), one to drive the compessor and one to drive the front wheels. three new servo motors, one to steer the rear wheels and two to operate the two pneumatic valves. Three section extending forks Pneumatic tilting of the forks using the the standard pneumatic cylinder Pneumatic lifting using THREE longer cylinders (one lifting the forks inside the inner rails using a chain linkage, the other two placed either side of the outer rails to lift the middle and inner rails using chain linkage) Auto pressure cut off (built using exiting cylinder and pf switch. Two new remotes (with two recievers) , giving 4 proportional channels. (drive, steer, forks lift, forks tilt). The compressor would be powered straight from the battery via the auto pressure cut off valve. New parts required are: Longer cylinder (x3), Servo motor (x3), High speed/ungeared (L?) motor (x2) Proportion transmitter (x2), Possibly new reciever if the current one does not support propper proportion control of servos (x2) And NO airtank! I honestly think that circuits powered by motor compessor are better without them. How does all that sound? I imagine the new parts would open lots of doors functionally and give us AFOLs who have lots of Lego already a bigger reason to buy it instead of making it out of the parts we already have. I also think it would be lots of fun to play with, especially if it came with a couple of pallets that you could put mugs and phones and tv remotes on

Pneumatics are very controllable, you just need to employ a tiny bit of skill using the controls which I actually prefere because it's more fun that just flicking a switch and then waiting forever for something to move really slowly with barely any power and it mimics the way you have to be skillful in real life, but lets not turn this into ANOTHER pnaumatics VS la debate, we've done that (pneumatics won BTW )

I don't own this set yet (christmas can't come soon enough!) but I think the concensus here is that the unimog works better than the 8868. The reason is that the 8868 only uses one stud length of the pumps stroke, whereas the Unimog uses 2 stud length. The new pump makes using 2 studs of stroke alot easier and more intuative which was my reason for suggesting it in the first place

Anything with new pneumatic (like longer cylinders) and/or transmission/gearbox parts (like more clutch gears in sizes other than 16t) and/or servo motor for controlling steering/gearboxes/pneumatic valves remotely with proportionality and accuracy. Until we get such a servo, I will never be sold on RC sets.

I really don't think an airtank would be that usefull because when it goes empty, it will just take alot longer for anything to move while the air tanks fill up again. Besides it's more realistic without one.

As far as I can tell, it does work properly, it's just a bit stiff, it's hardly a topic stopping issue is it!

I also like the idea of doing the gearing down myself and being able to use a white clutch gear or drive belt to protect gear trains. Motorised sets were more interesting when you could see lots of gears and pulleys spinning really fast.

The complexity of the 8043 comes from the gear trains only, it has nothing else, not even realism. My advice is to get the unimog. It has over 2000 pieces (way more than any other technic set, WAAAAAAYYYYY more than the excavator, lots of gears (unimog has about 60, the excavator has about 70, so nearly the same), pneumatics (excavator has non), suspention (excavator has non), realistic representation of real life functions (excavator does not), wheels (more useful for MOCing than tracks), and lots of new parts that for now can only be found in the Unimog (excavator has non). I can't see why the general concensus is that 8043 is more complex than 8110. 8110 has almost as many gears plus all wheel live axle suspension and motorised pneumatic functions. However these are only my humble opinions. If you want to make a really informed decision, you can look through the instruction manuals at www.lego.com

Seeing as the M and XL motors are already geared down very low (boring!), The missing L-motor should be a really fast one without any gearing down, like the 9v ungeared motor but more powerful! A RELIABLE s-motor would also be cool, as well as an SE-motor (servo). Servo is the one I'de like most.

My older style pumps sound like that so I guess it's normal. It's literally whistling as air comes out the unused port.

Thanx for sharing, the video is mezmorizing!

When these gears are used with a driving ring, they get pushed outwards due to the angle of the teeth on the driving ring and their mating teeth, this caused more friction between the end of the gear and the beam. Hopefully this shange should lessen the friction also. Now all they need to do is realease them in lots of sizes so we can make more realistic gearboxes