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Subject: 
Replacement Rigging (was Re: Ironclad _La Gloire_ virtually complete)
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lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build
Date: 
Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:12:24 GMT
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Lorbaat wrote:

In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:

Tony Priestman wrote:

Can I request more pics of the rigging? The ratlines(?) look a bit
threadbare, but the overall effect is very shiplike :-)

I'll see if I can get any.  It is a bit threadbare--I don't have enough
TLG-approved rig to do what I want to do, not to mention not having any sails
cut!  :)

Have you considered taking Lego string out of convenient unused winches?  I've
found that in general, clamping the end of a string between bricks is as good a
hold as the little 1x1 round ends.

Come to think of it, you could actually even use the broken strings you
mentioned before, if you haven't disposed of them.

I've used them, but in "wrap" form--sandwiched into some other construction.  But
the cording seems too thick to hold well between bricks.  The thread, as you noted,
will work between 'em--the problem is that I only had one piece of unused thread.
:)  I like my cranes to have complete winches, after all.

However, I have no doubt that Consumer Affairs will let me get new threads, seeing
as how this is standard-use breakage, and what's more, it's breakage of things that
had been unused before--the tape was still on them.

best

Lindsay



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  Re: Ironclad _La Gloire_ virtually complete--mini-page up
 
(...) Have you considered taking Lego string out of convenient unused winches? I've found that in general, clamping the end of a string between bricks is as good a hold as the little 1x1 round ends. Come to think of it, you could actually even use (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)

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