This is a small Technic set that I got as a gift when I quitted my previous job. It sits unsorted on my monitor.
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Red technic triangles...
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Jim Hughes Technica
4,5V motor system. It provided a lot of play value for me, unfortunately have I lost the engine some where in my childhood :(
Year 1982, 26 pieces.
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Motor :)
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A more powerful 9V motor (compared to the previous 4.5V model). It kept my dark ages away for some year but couldn't beat it... This is the first Technic 9V motor and has been replaced with the new geared down 9V that also has a fly wheel and is much more efficient.
Year 1991, 54 pieces.
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Motor :)
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This is my first Technic set. I don't consider it that much technic and therefor the 8020 Universal building set is my personal first technic set ,)
The buggy got steering and a working piston (the old 2x2 type). It's really nothing more to this set. Oh, wait. The chair has a pretty cool color scheme...
Year 1983, 178 pieces
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Uhm.. The beams?
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This is a pneumatic fork lift truck that's quite well done. It has one pneumatic cylinder to rise the load, steering and tilting of the forks. What else could a fork lift need?
Unfortunately the mounting of the 2x4 pneumatic pressure/suction divider is unfortunate. I broke it when I disassemble the set once. This shouldn't be a problem with today's pneumatics since the 2x4 brick is long gone ,)
I had a lot of fun with this set.
Year 1984, unknown number of pieces.
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Old pneumatic system
Chain links and two tread links
Beams
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Okay, so it's a helicopter. It has a main rotor and a tail rotor. It can raise/lower it's landing gears (very Helicoptrish I think ,).
This is a set that I either bought or traded in some deal with my brother before my dark ages. He's six years older then me and was much more interested in my money or a model sailplane I got as a gift from a neighbor that moved... Anyway..
Year 1981, 301 pieces.
Seen Britney Spears video where she tries to look sexy with a chair? This is the very chair used.
Just kidding, they used a designer chair from France made out of stainless steel originally design to withstand the demands of the US Navy.
This is the alternative model #4
Alternative model #5
Britney Spears... nah.
This is a model of the retractable landing gears.
Chain links
Blue beams
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This set was in a deal I made with my six year older brother before my dark ages. I think he got a model sailplane and I got some of his toys...
This set kind of lacks what defines a technic set IMHO. All it got is steering and suspension on the rear wheels. But hey, it's an old set :)
Year 1981, 174 pieces.
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Shocks
Beams
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This is a pneumatic excavator with three pneumatic cylinders. It uses the old style pneumatic that works with both pressure and vacuum, hence the pneumatic switches can never be crossed during operation (or the power of the system will be completely obsolete).
It's a cool set though, very realistic looking and fun to play with.
Year 1984, 358 pieces.
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Pneumatic system
Lot's of technic tread links
Beams
Large gears (z40)
Threaded cross axles, though I broke mine when I twisted the nut to hard using the tips in the instruction booklet... :(
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This excavator has some realistic functions, tilt of bucket, raising/lowering the bucket and turning. It's also very rigid in it's construction and -this is always appealing to me- it's yellow!
It has a light on the roof that steers the wheels, a crank on the engine hood to control the scoop and another in the back of the engine. I can't remember witch crank does what.
The set also has some nice wheels which are made from solid rubber = can carry a lot of weight. Unfortunately the rims is completely flat so the tire tends to slip of :( BUT! The rims can make a great steam roller part... *thinks* Yep! Sure can!
Year 1988, 332 pieces.
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Lot's of yellow parts :)
Wheels
Bucket
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Expansion pack to Mindstorms. Contains a USB camera to hook to the computer and program image recognition stuff with. As you might tell I have yet to try this (I don't have the appropriate operating system installed currently). It's actually a Logitech web camera cased in a plastic shell with studs on it.
Year 2000, 141 pieces.
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Gear boxes
Camera
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Well. What shall I say?
This set is what brought me back to LEGO after my dark ages so I owe this set big time! It contains a programmable brick called an RCX but you know all this. This is probably the most famous LEGO set of today. And if you don't know this set, take a look at this site.
Year 1999, 727 pieces.
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RCX, programmable brick
Two geared down engines
Sensors (touch and light)
Large gears (z40)
Beams
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Accessory pack for LEGO Mindstorms.
Released in 2000
Contains 46 pieces
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Remote control for the Mindstorms RCX brick.
Rotations sensor to measure the rotation of a cross axle
LEGO lamp
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Bought Spring 2002.
Year 1989, ? pieces
A transforming truck/robot. Pretty OK but nothing special. I have not built the alternative model yet.
Yellow :)
1 x 4 gear racks.
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I felt like doing another tank and as always I ended up building big. I had a lot of fun creating the "camouflage" on this one. I see it as a lesson in "greebling" as the spacers call it.
Mk III is easy to explain, I've already done Mk I and Mk II :)
The tank is not design to look like anything real, I just putted the bricks togheter in a way that "felt" right. I like building this way. I'm not patient enough to make big MOC's real looking :)
Radio controlled.
Four 9V motors, two for drive (controlled sperately to allow tank-steering) and two for the turret (left/right & up/down).
Well, GEEE! I'm *so* SORRY! :-)
Readers that have been to LoTek before might ask what music is corrupting my brain this time, the horrid truth is that I don't play any at the moment! :-D
Bought Autumn 2002.
Year 2001, 92 pieces
Green parts, 1x1 Technic brick with hole.
Cat :)
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Bought Autumn 2002.
Year 2001, 20 pieces
1 x 4 tile with stripe pattern.
Click hinges.
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Bought Autumn 2002.
Year 2000, ? pieces
Lugnet says this is a promotional set, but mine does appear to be normal sets. The store where I got 'em had a _bunch_ and was real cheap $0.5 US if my memory serves me.
Clear 2 x 2 45 slope
Red 2 x 3 wedge L&R
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