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Re: Wesell's vessel can't stop top
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Sun, 28 Apr 2002 05:24:08 GMT
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Actually that piece was made to do what it does for the same reason that the
front wings pop off. In the movie her ship crashes ( a nice little fight
scene involving anikan landing on top of it and slicing the wing off, almost
losing his lightsaber in the process)and her cockpit flies open. That was
the scene that they were trying to reproduce. I got this info from the Ep II
graphic novel. What I did though was put two 1x1 plates apiece on each side
and then put a 1x3 across the hinge. It doesn't open at all, but once Zam's
in there it doesn't really matter. Dave
In lugnet.starwars, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Jim Green writes:
> > I am having a moment of disappointment with my new Bounty Hunter Pursuit set
> > that I'm wondering if others are experiencing. The issue: Zam Wesell's
> > ship's canopy will not stay closed. I do not know if this is something
> > intentional or accidental but the canopy hinge lacks a "tooth" on the
> > interior side to fit the hinge sprocket of the receiving piece. The result
> > is a canopy that flops open when tilted.
> >
> > I am of the mind that this is an oversight like what happened with the stair
> > segments in the Harry Potter sets. The reason I believe this is that the
> > canopy cannot be locked into the first toothed position without removing the
> > ship's outriggers. Forgoing the thought of poor design, is it possible this
> > section of the mold was accidentally reversed? Turning the hinge section 180
> > degrees would put the tooth exactly where it needs to be to lock the canopy
> > closed.
> >
> > Can others confirm that their canopy hinge is like mine or not?
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> Mine is precisely like that. I mentioned something about it in
> passing in another post; it's very annoying indeed. The cause
> is precisely what you identified: The hinge piece's "tooth" is
> 90-degrees "off" from what you need to keep it shut in the Jack
> Stone sets. My solution was to use the "spare" blue Technic half-
> pin with stud; I snapped that into the green piece at the top,
> with the stud forward, and now the canopy "clicks" when it shuts
> and the half-stud sticks out just enough to keep if from flopping
> open. The rubber band solution is good too, but I hate to rely
> on rubber bands. :)
>
> best
>
> LFB
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| (...) I rather doubt it, David. Very nice theory though! But there's a big difference between a canopy that pops open when you want and a canopy that never stays closed. By the way, my solution to it was to remove the short green technical beam (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Wesell's vessel can't stop top
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| (...) Mine is precisely like that. I mentioned something about it in passing in another post; it's very annoying indeed. The cause is precisely what you identified: The hinge piece's "tooth" is 90-degrees "off" from what you need to keep it shut in (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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