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Re: Crashing your Lego creation safely...
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Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:55:40 GMT
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> Well I have had numerous experiences involving dropping everything, from
> buildings to ships to trains to boats to vehicles. You name it, I dropped
> it. I used to have my entire LEGO collection upstairs in our attic, where we
> had a draw down ladder to get it, and it was a good 8-10 feet from the
> floor, and upon transporting various items from the building area to the
> attic, I dropped things. It was a carpet floor, but it still made it shatter
> like glass. Pieces everywhere. No broken parts, however. Scratches every now
> and then, simply because of physics.
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> I also used to get bored, and I did what I called endurance tests, on
> numerous vehicles. I would take cars, trucks, etc. and push them downstairs
> to see if they would break or not. I had a non-minifig car that I could
> never get to break apart. I also took some spaceships and threw them, to see
> if they survived or not. I also did planes as well, and even helicopters. In
> all my experiences, I have never had parts break. I do enjoy throwing a
> passenger plane directly into the wall and watch it smash apart. : )
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> As for cement, I did have an occurance once with my ADF-800 series fighter.
> It happened when I was taking it to my fiancee's house to show it to her. I
> got out to my driveway, tripped, and it flew and crashed, hard. It probably
> got some stratches with it, but I don't recall. That ship has been destroyed
> a lot! It took me about twenty minutes to rebuild it, but I did find all the
> pieces. No broken ones then either.
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> I don't know if you have done this kind of thing before, but I can safely
> say it is hard to break parts, especially the usual bricks and plates,
> because of the properties of molded ABS. Some of the newer antennas,
> roadsigns, etc. are another story.
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> Scott "Yes, I like destroying things" S.
> --
I have finally determined the UH-60 L crash site will be a carpeted wide
walkway at my job. It's got that thin industrial carpet and directly
underneath is concrete. Hard yet with a not-so-abrasive-to-piece thin
carpet layer. The area is wide and will allow pieces to fly very far
before hitting a cubicle wall.
My friend works the graveshift here and works alone so I'll come in
at night and crash the helocopter and then photo document the wreckage.
I think this is the first project that's been (or will be) photographed
for web presentation. The cement under the thin carpet will really
provide a hard surface to bust up the air craft nicely.
....I can't wait for the destruction
- Marc
http://www.netpresonic.com/lego/uhc/
[ the story-lined pages before the fatal flight... ]
ps this is a teaser release of the site....
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| (...) Marc, I do hope that you're planning to catch this on video, not just stills? It would be particularly cool if you had access to a high-speed movie camera that can capture upwards of 60 frames/sec... Have fun! -- John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D. (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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