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Anyone tried to build a Coke machine?
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:02:27 GMT
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lopaskar@san.rr.com#stopspammers#
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I am in the process of building a train station, and decided I wanted to
add a Coke machine. Minifigs get thirsty out here in the desert, ya
know. (:
Has anyone tried to do this before? I've got a general concept -- use
the 1x2x3 (I think) window as the 'window' on the machine, with 1x1
rounds as the cans, on a 4x6 baseplate. The trick is now how to make it
vend, without them all pouring out when I open the flap. I've been
tinkering with hinges and L-frame plates (I have no clue what the
'official' name is for these), but they either align too closely into
the machine so I can't pull it out or they create a gap where the can
falls in and doesn't come out.
At least I've figured out how to guide them down, sorta -- I have one of
the 1x2 flat-on-one-side pyramids hidden in there to create a slope to
guide the can down, next to a tile so that it doesn't get caught on any studs.
If anyone's got ideas that would help me out, I'd appreciate 'em .. I'm
still playing, but having a rough go. (:
Thanks!
==Leanne
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Leanne Opaskar lopaskar@san.rr.com
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Anyone tried to build a Coke machine?
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| (...) Cool! (...) Maybe you can make a mechanism inside that, when it's tilted down to serve the soda, blocks the hole above at the same time. Only when you close or lift it back up does it receive another can. If you lay the cans on their sides, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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