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Subject:	Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.pirates
Date:	Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:41:01 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes: > In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes: > > > > I do like the slide (which I completely ignored on my on carronade's). > > > > It's hand on two levels: first, it is acurate, second, it saves me gun > > carriage wheels (which are in desperately short supply!). I'm toying with > > the idea of pivot-mounting about a dozen of 12-pounders because my wheel > > supplies have dried up entirely. > > Yes, I found my supply of small wheels (which I'd previously thought of as > being large and annoying) suddenly dried up when I started carriage mounting > a lot of my guns. Yeah, me too- and I have only Armada Flagship, Red beard runner, and the hull and sails of the BSB. No wheels here, exept the ones scraped up from town sets. > > My small cannon designs us 1x1 round plates as wheels, mounted directly to > the SNOT carriages (2 2x2 L plates), and although they don't function as > wheels, they do look the part. > > Perhaps you could use http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/2436 or similar to > SNOT mount some 1x1 rounds as wheels on the larger guns? Indeed! You can use larger 2X2 round plates mounted on the 1X2 plate with one stud to make bigger wheels: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01028.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01032.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01033.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tboy/Pirate/cannons/dsc01034.jpg here's my cannon folder: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22173 > > Well, it seems we have a series arms race on our hands here... Hehehe, we do! > > Cheers > > Richie Dulin -JHK

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		Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
(...) Can I offer I suggestion on your cannon made of 2x2 rounds? Try a freestyle four stud wheelhub (conveniently available in grey) in place of the 2x2 round at the cannon mouth, to give a smooth end to the gun. I used that for my carronade (see (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)

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		Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
(...) Yes, I found my supply of small wheels (which I'd previously thought of as being large and annoying) suddenly dried up when I started carriage mounting a lot of my guns. My small cannon designs us 1x1 round plates as wheels, mounted directly (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)

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