Who likes to do lego's?

Id start with a 5 speed first so you get a better understanding of how to build them and then build a 10 speed. You could just build a 5 speed and then have a split range box in front to give you a 10 speed, like semi's have. A split range is just a 2 speed gearbox before the main 5 speed box.

If you have a paypal or access to paypal, you can buy any lego part you want on Bricklink.com , that's where i buy all of my lego.
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thanks for the tip. this is the first time ive ever tried this so im basiclly clueless

crafsmankiller wrote:

CornishMorgan wrote:

Id start with a 5 speed first so you get a better understanding of how to build them and then build a 10 speed. You could just build a 5 speed and then have a split range box in front to give you a 10 speed, like semi's have. A split range is just a 2 speed gearbox before the main 5 speed box.

If you have a paypal or access to paypal, you can buy any lego part you want on Bricklink.com , that's where i buy all of my lego.

thanks for the tip. this is the first time ive ever tried this so im basiclly clueless

you forgot the quote tag

Have a look at peeron and brickshelf. Peeron has building instruction for official Lego models. 8448 has got a 5 speed with reverse that you can learn from. Brickshelf is basically a huge picture gallery where people upload their models.

all idid was click on 'quote'. my computer doesnt make the little box thing.

ok Here is the start of my next project.

Ariens YT11 wrote:

ok Here is the start of my next project.

Looking good, that's gonna look real bad ass when its done

its lookin good.

thanks and it will look badass.

Here it is.

Kind of reminds me of an APC.

sweet, that looks kinda evil in a way. I wouldn't want to meet that on a battlefield.

Doug Fackler wrote:

Kind of reminds me of an APC.

you stole the words right out of my mouth, damnit.

CornishMorgan wrote:

sweet, that looks kinda evil in a way. I wouldn't want to meet that on a battlefield.

Doug Fackler wrote:

Kind of reminds me of an APC.

you stole the words right out of my mouth, damnit.

Question what is APC?

Ariens YT11 wrote:

Question what is APC?

Armored Personnel Carrier

ok Thanks.

here is my semi pulling my 8x8 mudder.

That looks sooooo cool, I love it, well done

A suggestion, the second axle on the truck shouldn't be duals, that axle is just for axle weight and would create too much drag on the tires when cornering.
That's just a note on real trucks but this is lego so it doesn't really matter.

Its looking great.
Keep up the good work.

Ahh lego takes me back.

FIrst there was Meccano.. It was awesome. It had motors and gears and sprockets, and required tools to put toether. I still have a working steam engine that fits meccano.

Then Lego came along, and it was cool. Back in 72, I had a lego semi truck kit, It took me hours to put together.

The K'nex came along and people jumped on it because leo was stale.

Now lego has all this new fan gled cool stuff. and I can't afford to play with it anymore, so i just give it to the nephews, and neice.

CornishMorgan wrote:

That looks sooooo cool, I love it, well done

A suggestion, the second axle on the truck shouldn't be duals, that axle is just for axle weight and would create too much drag on the tires when cornering.
That's just a note on real trucks but this is lego so it doesn't really matter.

Cornish I know about the dummi axal can have a single tire not dualls but that is the UK idea of a dummi axal, here in the US the Semi's have dualls sometimes but only for really heavy loads.

Ariens YT11 wrote:

CornishMorgan wrote:

That looks sooooo cool, I love it, well done

A suggestion, the second axle on the truck shouldn't be duals, that axle is just for axle weight and would create too much drag on the tires when cornering.
That's just a note on real trucks but this is lego so it doesn't really matter.

Cornish I know about the dummi axal can have a single tire not dualls but that is the UK idea of a dummi axal, here in the US the Semi's have dualls sometimes but only for really heavy loads.

Most of uor trucks up here run full powered tandem or triple axle setups. Only the intown drivers run tag axles. although we do see them on buses.

Ariens YT11 wrote:

CornishMorgan wrote:

That looks sooooo cool, I love it, well done

A suggestion, the second axle on the truck shouldn't be duals, that axle is just for axle weight and would create too much drag on the tires when cornering.
That's just a note on real trucks but this is lego so it doesn't really matter.

Cornish I know about the dummi axal can have a single tire not dualls but that is the UK idea of a dummi axal, here in the US the Semi's have dualls sometimes but only for really heavy loads.

Well you learn something new everyday. I thought that the second axle had to be singles because of sideways drag. Mind you, our roads are smaller and have steeper corners than yours do so that's probably why I always thought they had to be singles.

Now that I've looked on google I see what you mean.

I stand corrected .

sorry I haven't done much here but I am working on a pickup truck right now and it isn't coming out too well so I hope I can get a photo of it up in a few days.

I am 39 years old and still buy legos. I mainly collect the minifigs.

Cool, you are never too old for lego's.

Chopperhed wrote:

Ahh lego takes me back.

FIrst there was Meccano.. It was awesome. It had motors and gears and sprockets, and required tools to put toether. I still have a working steam engine that fits meccano.

Then Lego came along, and it was cool. Back in 72, I had a lego semi truck kit, It took me hours to put together.

The K'nex came along and people jumped on it because leo was stale.

Now lego has all this new fan gled cool stuff. and I can't afford to play with it anymore, so i just give it to the nephews, and neice.

Omg Meccano, where old school mechanics learned how to think and adept. Awesome!

Dude legos are amazing

mudmonkey06 wrote:

Dude legos are amazing

Yes they are.