Paul B Technic

What are some of the best ways to find other AFOL's in my local area? Paul

Thank you, I am going to see if I can find any other AFOL's around my area.

These are really good, well done.

Great work with these. Paul

Hi, At the moment I am having some issues deciding what I want to do as far as a hobby goes and this is starting to cause me some stress and problems in other parts of my life. I work full time (Monday – Friday 8:30 – 5pm) in IT support so outside work I try to not spend too much time on the computer outside work (most nights I don’t even take my laptop home with me) I got right in to radio scanning about 11 years ago, this is / was something I really enjoyed and something I have spent a lot of time doing over the years, I help to run a forum for this (www.scanningtasmania.org) about 2.5 years ago my partner at the time (who I am no longer with) expressed a concern that this hobby was not “socially acceptable” and as such I took up photography to make her happy and left the radio scanning hobby for a while. Around 18 months ago we split up and while I kept doing photography I also got right back in to radio scanning again. Now I have given up on photography totally and am back doing radio scanning as my main / only hobby but the “magic” seems to have left it for me since my other partner was so unhappy about me doing it and I am feeling less and less like doing it, it is to the stage now where I almost feel like I have to do it or else I just sit around doing nothing of a weekend. My current partner is very supportive of me and whatever I decide to do but I am sick of feeling unhappy about it and not knowing what I want to do. I do have another interest which is Lego Technic design and building, I did this quite a bit growing up and am thinking about getting right back in to it again now but again this is not really a “social” hobby or one I could talk to other people about. I have spoken to a few people about it but everybody has a “vested interest” those people who I know via radio scanning think I should be doing that and people I know in the Lego hobby think I should be doing that as a hobby. I have tried to have a mix / balance of different hobbies but this never works very well for me, whenever I am doing one I feel like I should be doing the other one plus I live in a small unit so I don’t have a lot of room to have things setup. Which hobby should I go forward with? Paul

Thanks for that :)

Thanks for the help. What I am looking for is a couple of files which covered a few things, I think the names might have been building big, something about gears and the aert of lego design. my email address is paulgblundell@yahoo.com.au if anybody has any of these types of files. Paul

Some really great work here :) I had all mine sorted but gave up and put them all back in a single tub, this works much better for me and my building style. Paul

A while ago I put together a good collection of various PDF files to do with Technic building but I have now lost this folder off my computer, does anybody know where to find these files again or have any links to any Techic PDF files? Paul

My latest storage system:

Thanks for your feedback, yes we do have some trucks that use this type of set up off the back (I was watching one at work this morning) basically the household domestic bins are put out and a truck with the side loading claw system empties these where as business and commercial bins are done with the rear loading type system which is what I built mine on. I am planning on filling in the back a bit more and maybe moving the gears under the tray to make it look better. Paul

This is based on set 8436 with a tray and loading arm made by me :) The main problem I had was with getting the angle of the loading arm right. I tried a few different methods but found this worked the best. Paul

This looks quite interesting, well thought out and it looks to have some cool features.

I have some of the older type switches that would be 15 years old at a guess and I have never had any issues with them at all. Paul

Excellent work with this, it has come together well and looks really good. You have some great features in this one.

Excellent work with this, it has come together well and looks really good. Nice to see something built that not many people would have seen before.

Excellent work with this, it has come together well and looks really good.

That is awesome :)

Great work on this one, I have the more modern version but still really like this one.

Great work with this.

Nice work with this.

The colours on that really stand out.

Great work with this. I love it.

I love it, excellent work.

Looks good and is well built, I like it. Paul