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Re: Closing airlocks
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
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Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:46:49 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Peter Roberts wrote:
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This has probably turned up before, but I wanted to know how people recommend
that closing airlocks should be created. I may not use any of your ideas,
but I would like to know what techniques there are. I am interested
particularly in airlocks that can be opened from the inside (realistically,
by minifigs); affect the outside more than the inside and allow spaceships
to dock with others (this is for a spaceship model). Examples from previous
MOCs would be appreciated. I am also interested in interior airlocks (that
don’t obstruct the minifigs inside).
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As cool as the 8x8 radar dish hatches look, placing them so they swing outwards
is a major engineering mistake, since you’d have higher pressure pushing it open
instead of closed. Of course, that’s just a hatch, not a full airlock. I think
the most interesting full airlock that I’ve seen was done as a rotating cylinder
formed from 3 of the 4x4 quarter cylinders, but I can’t remember where I saw it.
I came up with my own design (which is only a single hatch, but could very
easily be upgraded to a full airlock) for
Neptune’s Moon Lagoon. It’s
just a simple sliding wall, but it has a stud-free 1x1x1 extending out of one
side that fits into a matching socket in the far wall to prevent the door from
falling out. Thinking back on it, I probably could have just put a raised 1x1
tile on the sealing end, but I’m not going to tear into it at this point.
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