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Update #7 · Oct 16, 2011 · 3 comments

i just got back from two weeks in england, and just before i left i was working on the hanging of the marble run for modulor, but tommorow, and during the following week i will start sending out the first sets, and also start working on the documentation of the 230 meter marble run that i hung for modulor.

hang in there,

thx for all the patience!!!

walter.

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      Creator Mark Derail on October 18, 2011

      Walter, in my opinion, you have orders of magnitude greater patience than myself, building all these pieces and assembling / testing for that Modulur store.

      Kudos to you, sir. If at all possible, to receive my kit before December 23rd 2011.

      :smile:

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      Creator walter mason on October 18, 2011

      the white square is a skylight! but now that you mention it, i see what you mean :)

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      Creator sgllama on October 17, 2011

      Do you have any video of the 230m run? Fascinating picture - it took me a while to figure out what I was looking at, I couldn't shake the idea that the bit on the left was the side of a wardrobe and the bit on the right a shadow cast in the light of an OHP projector!

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