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Re: Yellow Low Sloped Corner Bricks?
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Date: 
Sat, 5 Jun 1999 20:20:22 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Kevin Wilson writes:
> John Cromer wrote:
> > I think it's called "gabled" because it is an otherwise normal 1x2
> > roof piece with a gabled overhang on one side, ie a vertical triangle
> > like a gabled roof.
> 
> This isn't the piece I was referring to... the one you just described is
> the one Gary said Rob F calls a "gable connector"... which is another
> misnomer, I think, since it connects rof peaks, not gables (which are at
> the outer end of a piece of roof). The one I was commenting on, the
> "gable end", is the tiny 1x2 one which is a pyramid cut in half, used at
> the outer end of a piece of hipped roof.

Right, gotcha.  Sorry for the confusion.  I agree with you, the name
"gable end" for that piece is confusing.  What's better? 1x2 hip roof
end?  1x2 half pyramid?  Or the LDRAW name, Slope Brick 45 1 x 2 Triple?
I don't know.

John C.

ps.  To muddy the waters even more, the Dacta literature I've seen refers
     to all the apex slopes as "ridge tiles."



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  Re: Yellow Low Sloped Corner Bricks?
 
(...) This isn't the piece I was referring to... the one you just described is the one Gary said Rob F calls a "gable connector"... which is another misnomer, I think, since it connects rof peaks, not gables (which are at the outer end of a piece of (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)

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