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Re: Garage doors, partial Technic
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lugnet.technic
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Sun, 2 Jan 2005 08:34:49 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, Jindrich Kubec wrote:
> > Ross Crawford wrote:
> > > Do you need both rubber bands? Removing one would decrease the tension, but not
> > > provide as much help opening the door. I think the basic mechanism is very neat.
> >
> > Removing the rubber bands doesn't help. The bands are not the worst
> > problem, it's the size of the standard bush which creates the tension.
> > I've tried to replace it with standard pin, but the bands were
> > constantly falling off.
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> Have you tried the pin with towball?
> http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=50
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> > I've got now an idea and replaced the 1x1 brick
> > above the locked bush with 1x1 round brick - it seems that the groove
> > around the round brick's base helps a bit. It also seems that the
> > 'groove' which guides the top of the doors is one plate higher than
> > needed, I'll try to fix that in the next version. I'm also planning to
> > make the doors 2 studs higher, I want them to be doors in fire station's
> > garage for the new fire engine.
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> Let us know how it goes!
>
> ROSCO
how about a groov at the opposite end aswell?
Why do things diffucult when you can make it easy?
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