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Subject: 
Replacement Rigging (was Re: Ironclad _La Gloire_ virtually complete)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build
Date: 
Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:12:24 GMT
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Lorbaat wrote:

> In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> 
> > Tony Priestman wrote:
> > 
> > > Can I request more pics of the rigging? The ratlines(?) look a bit
> > > threadbare, but the overall effect is very shiplike :-)
> > 
> > I'll see if I can get any.  It is a bit threadbare--I don't have enough
> > TLG-approved rig to do what I want to do, not to mention not having any sails
> > cut!  :)
> 
> Have you considered taking Lego string out of convenient unused winches?  I've
> found that in general, clamping the end of a string between bricks is as good a
> hold as the little 1x1 round ends.
> 
> Come to think of it, you could actually even use the broken strings you
> mentioned before, if you haven't disposed of them.

I've used them, but in "wrap" form--sandwiched into some other construction.  But
the cording seems too thick to hold well between bricks.  The thread, as you noted,
will work between 'em--the problem is that I only had one piece of unused thread.
:)  I like my cranes to have complete winches, after all.

However, I have no doubt that Consumer Affairs will let me get new threads, seeing
as how this is standard-use breakage, and what's more, it's breakage of things that
had been unused before--the tape was still on them.

best

Lindsay



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Ironclad _La Gloire_ virtually complete--mini-page up
 
(...) Have you considered taking Lego string out of convenient unused winches? I've found that in general, clamping the end of a string between bricks is as good a hold as the little 1x1 round ends. Come to think of it, you could actually even use (...) (27 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build)

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