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You're right about these youngsters having it good. I remember back around 73' or 74' having to make make due with just bricks and wheels w/a few windows and doors. Now there's more wheels in my wheel box of different sizes than I had wheels all (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud (was Re: MSP Fest?
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(...) Not in just two studs. If you use two technic bricks separated by 2 plates you do it, but in three instead of two. Everybody knows that one, of course. But the one you just pointed out is so VERY cool. Of course for best effect you need to use (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: MSP Fest?
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(...) If you put a technic brick on top instead of a plate, you have two studs in a vertical orientation exactly the right distance apart to place a 2 x 1 plate *vertically*. I can't think of any other way to have the same distance betwwn verical (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: MSP Fest?
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(...) These are some of the most useful bricks out there for direction changes. I must have 500 of them and I am always buying more because I run out. They have two studs and two holes. One stud is on top, one on the side, inset so that it is two (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.build)
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| | New look and new LDraw file at Sixby Fire Tech
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I have changed the Sixby Fire Tech site a bit. I have grouped the apparatus according to their type to streamline the main page. I have also created a section called - About Sixby Fire Tech, that now contains the Firefighting Terms, LDraw (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Do these elements exist in green? If you have some will you sell?
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I'm doing an SW-xxxx (probably a 1500 because it won't have top rounded windows) and I decided to do it in C&NW colors because yellow and green aren't used much in existing Train models. But I've discovered that I'm short (or have, but don't know (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | The Gantry Mill on the Inside
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The Gantry Mill has been torn down and the major components are shown on four pages at my site. Click on "The Gantry Mill on the Inside". Sorry no commentary yet. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Info on Gears and Building
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(...) Already (deservedly) so, February 15-21, 1998 Fred's World Fred G. Martin, M.I.T. Media Lab -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Info on Gears and Building
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(...) cool lego site of the week -- -Steven | Smile, Mickey's Watching | TDC TTAguy Think "Up" - "Down" will take care of itself (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Info on Gears and Building
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(...) CLSotW? (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Info on Gears and Building
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(...) Could this qualify for a CLSotW nomination? Assuming it hasn't won one previously, of course... Steve (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Info on Gears and Building
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Steve Bliss wrote (...) There is a HTML and it is... (URL) homepage is a wicked way to spend some time reading. A lot of neat stuff, ideas and history. And here it is... (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Info on Gears and Building
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(...) I got this when it first surfaced. Highly recommended. I'd say it has saved me 30% of my fiddle time when doing mechanisms. Since I'm not mechanical, that's pretty significant. (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Rural Station, New Freight cars
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(...) Thanks, Steve. Very true, especially in white... I have to tell you that those parts gave me fits, though, as the whole assembly is rather fragile until you get plates on both the top and bottom of the plate like section that sticks out of the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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A reference was given in lugnet.robotics to a paper called "The Art of LEGO Design". To me, it sounded like an architecture piece--how to design asthetically pleasing models. Which would have been a pretty cool article, but I was wrong. This article (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | New Rural Station, New Freight cars
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I finally got round to making a bit of room and posting some of the pics of some of my more recent work. If you surf my site, at the bottom of the buildings page you'll see my rural station. This blue/white station is intended to capture what a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Stairs
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(...) I have a design at: (URL) have done a few variations on this, with different types of bricks. But since you say tou son't want the open below look, maybe this is of no help to you... Rob (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Stairs
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(...) concluded (...) Well, if they're not necessary, they might be required if one wants a "solid stair" look. Castles that use "stone" staircases most certainly can benefit by this, unless it's a wooden staircase in which case it's the wrong (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Brand New Rigs at Sixby Fire Tech
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(...) Paul, the shoelaces are almost too easy to make, for the record, here is how to do it: The supply lines are made from 5/16" wide shoelaces while the attack lines are made from 3/16" shoelace. The supply lines are easier to make. Just take a (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Catalogs (was Technic 99)
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Thanks, Steve, very lucid and helpful replies. -- -Steven | Smile, Mickey's Watching | TDC TTAguy Think "Up" - "Down" will take care of itself (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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