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Re: Murasaki modular corridor system
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
Date: 
Tue, 6 Jul 2004 07:03:18 GMT
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In lugnet.space, David Laswell wrote:
  

In the text you mention that you used the bricks with pegs instead of bricks with peg-holes, to avoid “wasting” the connector pegs. Two questions:

1. Don’t you find that the bricks with pegs are difficult to attach/detach? That’s been my experience with this kind of solution. The added slop in the actual Technic peg connection makes this much easier without accidentally squeezing a corridor and shattering it, for example.

2. Are Technic pegs in short supply? I don’t have much Technic, but I have never come close to running low on them. The bricks with built-in pegs are often unused, I admit, but are you actually low on pegs or did I misread your post?

--Bill.



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  Re: Murasaki modular corridor system
 
(...) Heh. We (and by "we" I mean "I", since I was the only one moving them around during setup) actually found that when you make the mistake of picking them up by the far ends of the corridors, the central hub is self-ejecting. I'd originally (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)

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  Murasaki modular corridor system
 
(URL) The seeds of this idea had been floating around in my mind since I first participated in a MichLUG display, where the importance of having both multi-connection modules and the ability to adjust to last-minute changes were driven home. At that (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)

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