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Re: Circular airlock!
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
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Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:13:10 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Chris Maddison writes:
> Hi all,
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> Here's that round airlock I mentioned earlier. To go straight to the pics:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=20672
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> 1 and 2 show the outside, with airlock open and closed.
> 3 and 4 show the inside, with airlock open and closed.
> 5 shows the roof removed. You can see the how the arches are used here.
> 6 shows one side's walls removed, and the arches are shown more prominently.
> 7 shows the key to the arches SNOT. This is the bottom 1x4 in pics 3 & 4.
> 8 shows what's happening under the cylinder.
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> This works great - the airlock is snug, and moves nicely. It won't wobble
> open on you. And it physically cannot be open to the inside and outside at
> the same time when using 3 round panel pieces and this exact arch
> configuration. I neglected to add tiling to the top of the cylinder to
> "seal the hole" between it and the roof, but you can do that easily. Also,
> sorry about the black - it's the only color I had enough of to do this, and
> I still needed more (hence, the red).
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> The only real downsides to this are that it
> (1) takes a lot of interior space in a small building. But, I sort of
> solved that with the interior detailing, hiding the back/underside of the
> arches.
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> (2) can only be made at a 45 deg. angle. In pics 1 and 2 you can see
> clearly how I made the 45 deg. floor thingie to compensate this well.
That's magnificent! It reminds me of the "transporter" on my old
Star Trek playset (wow, that was a LONG time ago--1977, I think)
that worked on a similar principle. But I haven't thought about
it since--that's an excellent employment of a rotating design.
Could you use the other "mating" arches--the roof ones--in such a
design? That would make grey an easier proposition, because not
many of us likely have the inverse arches in grey in large numbers.
best
LFB
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| (...) Thanks Lindsay. (...) You could, and that was my original idea, but then you couldn't use the 1x4 w/ studs on side, you'd have to use something that accepts studs (i.e. 2 1x2 technic bricks w/ two holes). And I couldn't find mine. :-( So yes, (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jul-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| Hi all, Here's that round airlock I mentioned earlier. To go straight to the pics: (URL) and 2 show the outside, with airlock open and closed. 3 and 4 show the inside, with airlock open and closed. 5 shows the roof removed. You can see the how the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jul-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build) !
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