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Re: The NUT of the day : One Stud Offset
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Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:37:02 GMT
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Didier Enjary wrote:
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The jumper plate IS a hollow stud part. What if we combine these two
techniques? You achieve an incredible one-stud offsetand get great advantages
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- only two plates thick,
- less clutch power for immediate disassembling
- limited jumper plate colour availability for increased building challenge
and the most amazing is that this technique has
- No SNOT side effects.
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All humor aside, this is actually a useful technique...in one specific instance
(well, probably two, now). When you put a grille tile down on a regular plate,
the studs fill in the gaps nearly completely. When you put a grille tile down
on a jumper plate, a lot of the space between the slats remains open. It’s not
easy to tell due to the parts being black-on-black, but I actually did this very
thing twice on my Nerd Herd car from the Chuck TV series
here. You can see two
grille tiles bridging the gap between the two headlights, but the telling thing
is that you can’t really make out any studs behind them. I tried it the other
way, but with the jumper plates instead of a regular 1x4 plate it looks less
solid behind the grille.
The grilled cheese is the other part that can make use of this, but it doesn’t
have a pin in the center, so while you can put it down on a jumper plate, it
won’t stay put unless you lock it in from all four directions. Also, since it’s
already raised due to the slope, you’ll notice the difference in studs a lot
less than you will with the regular grille tile.
Ooh, actually, now that I think of it, you can also get a different look by
doing this with transparent parts, like if you want some variation in a
multi-layer wave washing up on a beach.
So, wait, now what was that about this being a useless technique again?
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| ABT (Advanced Building Techniques) are widely used. Everyone knows for instance the use of a jumper plate to achieve a half stud offset (AZMEP) (URL) Another one consist in stacking 1xn parts on hollow stud in a tube to hollow stud connection. (URL) (...) (15 years ago, 30-Jun-09, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !!
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