I am right now on process of completing my Unimog Set and I am really amazed by how complex the chassis is, although most of the gears and axles seems to be there so that the whole vehicle can operate with a single motor, yep, something like saying “Yes, We can!”. I came across this […]
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Hello there, Here it is my second LEGO Technic set: LEGO 9392 Quad Bike. I just saw it while shopping and who could resists to buy this fantastic set for barely 30€ ( Damn! I have just checked Amazon.co.uk and it is for sale at £15.50 ). Anyway, the set is a simple and affordable
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Finally I found some free time to build this fantastic excavator model. I bought it three weeks ago from Amazon.co.uk for barely £38 and after building it I can really recommend it to you. It is an interesting model with lots of parts but still something easy to build. It took me three hours to
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I watched this video at Youtube and it was tagged as a failure, but I think it is pretty impressive to see the cheetah getting up from the floor. And although it goes down when the center of gravity moves forward I agree with some of the comments on the video about either trying to
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Who has not spent hours and hours watching these little balls moving? This kind of Great Ball Contraptions really capture your mind and your will. Watching so many little balls going here and there on their own under the sole power of mechanic and gravitation has something that really touch my little technic heart. Speechless!
Don’t you hate sorting you LEGO Bricks before building a new set? Most bricks are relatively easy to spot and use but I have quite a few problems with Technic axles and beams because they all look so similar… it is not easy for a newbie like me to difference at first sight a 5
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A Tatra suspension is a special type of suspension that has as main advantages (in real vehicles) is that all wheels are independent. In a rigid axle, when a wheel goes up, the other located on the axle goes down. Compared to traditional independent suspension, wheel doesn’t stay perpendicular to the road but Tatra suspension
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Hurray! Finally my parcel arrived, a brand new LEGO Technic Excavator, the model 42006 which has instructions for two different constructions.
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LEGO release a nice kit for adding movement to our Technic constructions, the Power Function 8293 set. But what happens if your vehicle is to big and weights so much that not even the XL motor can move it at a decent speed? Don’t despair. Here you have a LEGO sized V8 motor at your
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Oh man, Lego Technic is really changing my way of looking at the world. I am everyday, everyhour looking at machines and thinking how I would do that using Technic. Gears, bricks, axles… A loom is a device used to weave cloth. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under
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