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Re: Circular airlock!
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Date: 
Tue, 2 Jul 2002 03:21:37 GMT
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That's so cool!!!

<gasping for breath>

:-D

Awesome idea Chris! I once had this Marvel Superheros action figure set that
used a similar concept for elevator doors. Anyways, this has so many great
applications. Can't wait to see what else you'll come up with.

Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/

In lugnet.space, Chris Maddison writes:
Hi all,

Here's that round airlock I mentioned earlier.  To go straight to the pics:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=20672

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.

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).

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.

(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.

LMKWYT!
-Chris



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(...) Heh, thanks Mladen. Hmm...elevator...<getting ideas for something that swivels and goes up and down> Thanks! -Chris (22 years ago, 2-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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