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Re: Two new town buildings plus WAMALUG photos
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Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:36:18 GMT
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In lugnet.build, William R. Ward writes:
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> Those windows turned out great! Are they wedged inside arches?
> That's quite ingenious. I didn't spot the partial hinges, though.
Yep, it turns out that the radar dish pieces are (of course) exactly the size
of the opening within two 2x6 arches placed facing each other. There is a
little 'notch' in the center inside of the arch which is a hair lower than the
'walls' of the brick, so with some sort of frame to squeeze the arches
together, the round dish stays in there. Unfortunately, since the upside down
arch has to have a tile on it's 'underside', resting on another tile, it is
very easy to just push out that wall section.
As for the hinge parts, they are the bottom half of the 1x2 90 degree hinges
http://www.brickbay.com/catalogItem.asp?PartID=3937
They are placed facing 'upward' on the bottom, on top of the first layer of
grey bricks, and then also placed facing outward a little below the roofline.
You can see them in the front photo
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=95708
in line with the uppermost grey grilles in the center of the building. It's
easies to see them on the side of the building, in profile.
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> What's the story behind the K-8?
I don't know the details of the WAMALUG K-8, but I believe we got these big
boxes of Lego from the company to use for kids to play with at shows we do. We
are allowed to take out parts as long as we put in the same amount. For some
reason, one of these boxes had dozens of just the bottom parts of these 1x2
hinges, so I tried to find a use for them.
> --Bill.
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| (...) I was worried that 2x6x2 inverse arches had been invented without my noticing it... I'm relieved to hear that it's just some clever SNOT design. I wonder if you could fix that by putting a pair of Technic axle between the two arches in lieu of (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.build)
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