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Re: MSP Fest?
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Date: 
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:04:26 GMT
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Turn the brick on its side, and put a plate on top. Now it's the same
height as a brick. With the stud facing out, it makes a great way to
mount a plate or tile. But unlike when you use a technic brick with a
1/3-1 technic peg/stud in it, the plate is flush with the bottom of
the brick. Use the technic and it's flush with the top instead.

If you put a technic brick on top instead of a plate, you have two studs
in a vertical orientation exactly the right distance apart to place a 2 x
1 plate *vertically*.  I can't think of any other way to have the same
distance betwwn verical studs.

With the brick on its side with the bottom sticking out, you have a hole,
and it's only two plates thick, so it can be held in place with two
plates firmly while not wasting tons of room.

Use several together and you can reverse stud direction completely.

it's a lot of fun to play with a bunch of these together, especially
because the recess is exactly the same depth as the thickness of the bit
underneath the recess.  Place one upright, and attach another sideways
and upside down to it. Add a plate upside down to the bottom and you've
changed stud direction in a
1 x 2 space.
--Bram


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  The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud (was Re: MSP Fest?
 
(...) Not in just two studs. If you use two technic bricks separated by 2 plates you do it, but in three instead of two. Everybody knows that one, of course. But the one you just pointed out is so VERY cool. Of course for best effect you need to use (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)

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