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Best "practical" use of LEGO?
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Mon, 3 Oct 2005 06:36:25 GMT
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What uses have you put LEGO to that are for practical reasons? Let me give some
examples to illustrate:
1. Eric McCarthy's napkin holder made of LEGO
2. I use 2x4 bricks as leveling shims for furniture in areas where the floor is
not entirely flat
3. Someone posted on LUGNET a couple years ago that they had built a holder for
their electric toothbrush out of LEGO TECHNIC parts; I built one too
4. My wife uses small interdental brushes that happen to fit nicely in TECHNIC
peg holes, so I built a little LEGO brush holder for her
What practical uses have you found for LEGO?
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| (...) I made a mousetrap (non-killing variety) out of LEGO a few years ago when I had a mouse rooting around the house. It almost sort of worked too. The mouse triggered it once but managed to escape. Unfortunately the initial design had a few (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| In lugnet.general, William R. Ward wrote: <snip> (...) Well, I was having a problem with the toilet mechanism--the stopper wouldn't fall down after the water drained out of the tank. I thought that adding some weight to offset the center of gravity (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) My home is about 80 years old, but the windows pre-date the invention of glass. As such, the storm windows tend to rattle mightily when even the faintest zephyr passes. To remedy this, I've inserted three- and four-brick stacks of LEGO 2x4 (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| LEGO makes a nice box for containing RTV silicone mold-making compound. Lots of scale modelers use it when making molds for making cast-resin parts. My son uses it to make little "arenas" for his hermit crabs to play in. (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Not by myself, but... A lot of schools round the world are using my BlockCAD (Virtual Lego) program to teach pupils both geometry and beginner's CAD. Does it count :-) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Bird toys. We have a Rainbow Lory[1] named Stitch. He loves to play with lego pieces. Kind of an exploratory thing -- he checks out every nook and cranny. He's totally fascinated by texture and shape. Kind of like an infant -- he sticks (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) One of my colleagues at work has an iPOD holder out of Lego. At various times I've had different pen/pencil cups made out of Lego, and I had a 32 x 32 mouse pad covered in green & black tiles until I needed the tiles.... Paul Sinasohn LUGNET (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The bolt that held the handle to the base of my vacuum cleaner fell out, so the thing kept falling apart when I tried to pick it up. It turned out that a 6 long technic axle with a bushing at each end was the perfect length and diameter to (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| G'Day How 'bout keyring holder? Thick base plate screwed to wall (one by front door, one in kitchen), technic brick on keychain, ya get home, snap brick onto base plate, and viola ! ya always know where your keys are! Cheers Oliver Play Well ! "Bill (...) (19 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I made a cover for the buttons on the front of our television to prevent our toddler(s) from pushing them and turning the TV on and off. Using black tiles as the front, it blends right in. My daughter is now 5 and still does not know that it (...) (19 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I once used a technic pulley wheel attached to a couple of technic liftarms to replace the seal (spline) in a screen door. I just wheeled it over the seal to push it into the slot which holds the wire mesh and voila! I also have a few old grey (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| Last year, I decided to remove the very obsolete and entirely nonworking (not to mention unserviceable) electric parts from my ‘60s era electric/acoustic Accordion. This made it about 20 pounds lighter, but also left two rather large holes in the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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