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Hello fellow Schleimers, while working on my six-wide Ford F-150 (1 stud to 1
foot scale, seen here) I
discovered a SNOT technique that I wound up not using...mainly because I’m not
sure how “pure” it is. It uses a tiny piece of tubing:
So, what’s the verdict? Is cutting pneumatic tubing valid? Or does this make
me evil?
Derek
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Derek Schin wrote:
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So, what’s the verdict? Is cutting pneumatic tubing valid? Or does this
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I’ll go with “C”, it’s valid but you’re evil anyway...
But I’m not very pure, I already cut flex system tubing.
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Derek Schin wrote:
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Hello fellow Schleimers, while working on my six-wide Ford F-150 (1 stud to 1
foot scale, seen here) I discovered a SNOT technique that I wound up not using...mainly
because I’m not sure how “pure” it is. It uses a tiny piece of tubing:
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So, what’s the verdict? Is cutting pneumatic tubing valid? Or does this
make me evil?
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Yeah, go for it! If you look around in .trains and .technic you’ll find lots of
MOCs with “non-standard” lengths of tubing. In fact, Lego fully condones the
cutting of tubing (at least the pneumatic kind), as kits are supplied with a
single length of tubing and the user is expected to cut it to length per the
instructions. How’s that for rationalizing... :D
Mark
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Derek Schin wrote:
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Hello fellow Schleimers, while working on my six-wide Ford F-150 (1 stud to 1
foot scale, seen here) I discovered a SNOT technique that I wound up not using...mainly
because I’m not sure how “pure” it is. It uses a tiny piece of tubing:
So, what’s the verdict? Is cutting pneumatic tubing valid? Or does this
make me evil?
Derek
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That’s brilliant. Cutting pneumatic tubing is a ‘pure’ method IMO. Various
lengths of tubing are one of the more usefull parts in fact, but this never
occured to me. Well done. They’d also fit inside the tubes of 2+ wide plates
wouldn’t they?
Allister
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Yeah, go for it! If you look around in .trains and .technic you’ll find lots
of MOCs with “non-standard” lengths of tubing. In fact, Lego fully condones
the cutting of tubing (at least the pneumatic kind), as kits are supplied
with a single length of tubing and the user is expected to cut it to length
per the instructions. How’s that for rationalizing... :D
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Ah, this is the thing. Cutting PNEUMATIC tubing is allowed, as Lego themselves
advocated it from the very first pneumatic sets, and gave you cutting guides.
Cutting FLEX tubing isn’t, as they always supplied it in correct lengths.
So, you’re alright, but Larry’s now an outcast. ;-)
Jason Railton
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Jason J. Railton wrote:
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Yeah, go for it! If you look around in .trains and .technic you’ll find
lots of MOCs with “non-standard” lengths of tubing. In fact, Lego fully
condones the cutting of tubing (at least the pneumatic kind), as kits are
supplied with a single length of tubing and the user is expected to cut it
to length per the instructions. How’s that for rationalizing... :D
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Ah, this is the thing. Cutting PNEUMATIC tubing is allowed, as Lego
themselves advocated it from the very first pneumatic sets, and gave you
cutting guides. Cutting FLEX tubing isn’t, as they always supplied it in
correct lengths.
So, you’re alright, but Larry’s now an outcast. ;-)
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Sez YOU!
How do you think LEGO gets it to be the right length??? >:-)
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Allister McLaren wrote:
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That’s brilliant. Cutting pneumatic tubing is a ‘pure’ method IMO. Various
lengths of tubing are one of the more usefull parts in fact, but this never
occured to me. Well done. They’d also fit inside the tubes of 2+ wide plates
wouldn’t they?
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Thanks! Actually, I don’t think there’s enough grip when used inside the 2+
plate tubes...that’s my favorite thing about this method; it’s VERY strong.
Derek
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