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Re: best way to support elevated plates?
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lugnet.build, lugnet.town
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Fri, 13 May 2005 02:35:37 GMT
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"Joe Strout" <joe@strout.net> writes:
> We're thinking about raising up half of our town, so that we can have the train
> run into a tunnel and be a subway train on the elevated half and a surface train
> on the other half (with the two halves joined by a hill). This will also allow
> us to make underground parking garages and whatnot.
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> Our town is composed mostly of road plates, with some other 32x32 green and gray
> plates thrown in the mix. Thinking about how to elevate and support these
> stably has got me scratching my head. We have plenty of Duplo for the columns,
> but I need a surface under the plates strong enough for us to build on
> (including not-too-gentle kids pushing down on things to anchor them to the
> plates).
If you have lots of spare 2x4 bricks, then you can use the same technique
we used at the 2002 GETS show:
http://www.nalug.org/TrainShow2002/ModuleBase-004.jpg
I does use *lots* of 2x4 brick, and a few others, and you have to be quite
careful to not leave large fractures in the structure, but they can be
quite sturdy. We had 8 of these in a grid, and some pretty big buildings
on top of them.
(In truth, we cheated, and built a few out of my Megabloks. The problem with
that is that the slight size difference is a real nuisance, although the
new Megabloks moulds are much closer in size and should work better.)
We put some Technic bricks in the design, with the goal of using Technic
pins to join the module bases. But, that method doesn't work with things
this big. The T-bar connector scheme I used last year on my mountain would
be better. See our GETS2004 page.
--
Experience should guide us, not rule us.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.COM
http://www.GraySage.COM/cg/
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