Aha! Look what I just found!
 

I was digging through a bunch of crap to find something that would work as a battery tray and I found some old knex models I used to build all the time. I was probably around 12 when I was making these things.

The car has a v... no W16 engine. When you push it the "pistons" go up and down. It's one big hunk of plastic and I remember pushing it down the stairs then fixing it when it broke...:lol:

The other one's a tank...

http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/S7301506.jpg
http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/S7301507.jpg
http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/S7301508.jpg
http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/S7301509.jpg
http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/S7301510.jpg

All in all it's pretty schweet.:yes:

sweetness

So when are you making it brushless? :D


I remember building stuff with knex, made my own crane and lifted stuff up to the second floor, like batman action figurines. So much fun.

Nice!!!! I remember those! I always had to cut the pieces to build things because they didn't fit the way I wanted. :lol: I progressed from Erector sets, to K'nex, to Lego Mindstorms (very cool), then R/C.
I still dig out the Legos once in a while...

Legos were great. I honestly think legos are to blame for the selection of hobbies that I have had since. Always working on something, trying to fix it or make it better...

so Lego's were the gateway drug to this expensive habit?

First it's Legos, then it's on to other more dangerous things! :rofl:

lego's got me too. if you want to see over the top multi thousand dollar lego builds go here http://retardzone.com/?s=lego

Military moves ruin my Lego collection. Of all the stuff my son and I built, this is the only one left intact.

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...Picture515.jpg

He did the elephant charcoal portrait in the background when he was 6 years old.

i'm old school;
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I loved my lego when I was young, then went to technic lego- gave up on it because the little plastic gears kept braking all the time. I do still have one custom made model left as a keep sake though...

Looks like a slash lol..

Skipped.
 

I kind of skipped right over the whole plastic era. When we were kids the Erector sets were the phase. Lots of metal and good old fasion motors and gears to get it moving, and nuts and bolts galor. Probably why I became a mechanic and thrived in the engineering field. I tried the Lego fad, but just could not get enough out of it to keep me satisfied. Then when they came out with all of the premade kits I thought how in the hell is anyone suposed to find their creative side if everything is already done for you???:neutral: No tools, and it just snaps together. What fun is that?:diablo: I looked at it as just another invention to make us lazy and forge up more incompitence. I guess I am just one of the old school guys:yes:. All of the plastic stuff just breaks too easy for me.:lol:

legos are still great, im 29 and i still whip out my legos and build stuff:lol:

That is cool. I can just see the piston effect! :lol:

I'm counting all my knex at the moment... I'm at like 1500 and I've only counted 5 diferent lengths of rods... I still have all the little ass peices and bigger connectors.

I'm gunna sell all of it on ebay!:lol:

Or you could build something cool, sell it on ebay and some little kid could make use of it.:yes:

Well I think I'm going to sell that car and tank on the first page. The rest I just want to count all the little frickin peices and get rid of em. I bet i can get about 30-40 bucks!

For 1500 peices of plastic formed to connect to each other that aint bad.:wink:

That's a lot of Knex! Got a digital scale handy?

No. Thats the one thing I wish I had. I'll take a picture when I get em all sorted and counted. I'll weigh em on a bathroom scale to get a rough estimate of weight. I'll be done in about an hour I hope.. Been going hard for at least 2 hours.

It will be worth it in the end. I hope i can get 30-50 bucks out of all this work.

I'm going to do my math and listing here:
Panels: 30 small T's, 10 Med T's, 4 large T's,, 4 small squares
complete wheels - 5 small, 4 med onroad, 3 med offroad, 1 large offroad
rims - 7 med offroad rims, 2 small rims, 1 med onroad rim, 5 plastic complete wheels
gears - 2 small gears, 2 med gears (I have 8 med gears on my tank, 1 med and 4 small on my car)
other- A person, a dart gun thing, a ball, 5 half ball things, one pull-back motor
233 links of chain - About 17' of chain
steering assembly
Rods:
250 size 1 rods (green/black)
450 size 2 rods (white/gray)
450 size 3 rods (blue)
250 size 4 rods (yellow/gray)
200 size 5 rods (red/orange/tan/green)
50 size 6 rods (gray, biggest rods)
75 flexible size 6 rods (green/purple)
Connectors (flat):
30 360* connectors (white/black)
250 180* tabbed connectors (orange, for roller coaster)
150 180* connectors (yellow/gray)
60 odd 180* connectors (yellow/orange/gray - 1/3 with tabs)
200 135* cennectors (green)
150 90* connectors (red/dark gray)
100 45* connectors (light gray)
50 straight connectors (orange/brown)
150 single connectors (light gray)
Connectors (3D)
100 360* 3d connector (light/dark blue)
~135 180* 3d connector (purple/gray)
Bag of:
~50 blue spacers
~50 gray spacers
~40 rod ends w/ tab (tan/tan-brown)
~10 rod ends (blue)
~50 mid rod attachers (black/light gray)
Bag of about 50 odd/broken peices

That should be about it
1,725 Rods
1,375 Connectors
500 Others

3600 pieces toal!!!

I'm just about to list it on fleabay. Starting bid 9.99. I hope to make 20-30 bucks. I weighed it all and it's 15lbs without the manuals.

http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/S7301593.jpg

One word


DAMN!

What the knex?

:D

That's a crapload of toys ya got there... :P

Of course, you'd use your old toy money, to buy big boy toys!

I'm about to sell it all for 60 shipped hopefully!!