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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 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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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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Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) I've been doing the exact same thing over the weekend (train station and coke machine - and various other street furniture). I built my coke machine very simple (no actual dispensing), with red and white 2x2 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Design for drink machine (Was: Re: Anyone tried to build a Coke machine?)
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First off, thanks for the advice, folks! (: I messed around with the Coke machine for a while but couldn't get the mechanical bits to work right. I am debating re-attempting it with a spring mechanism, but I think the springs I have are too long. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Design for drink machine (Was: Re: Anyone tried to build a Coke machine?)
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(...) Yeah, I don't think springs would work. Because of the scale involved, simpler is often better. Maybe you could make the dispensing mechanism like some sort of revolving door turned on its side? That was my other idea. (...) Your ASCII art was (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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