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The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud (was Re: MSP Fest?
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lugnet.build
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Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:52:31 GMT
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Bram Lambrecht wrote:
> Lar pontificated:
> > 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.
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 a technic 1x1 or a 1x2 with two holes,
or else you're off half a stud horizontally. That can be useful but not
usually.
> 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.
Yes. This is a most wicked cool artifact of the decision to make the
fundamental ratio 5:6.
Thank goodness that whoever first designed this piece thought about it.
They could as well have just made a brick with a stud on the side. When
I first rediscovered LEGO (1)
I used to think indenting was a big mistake. I know better now.
1 - remember, back in 1971-2, this piece wasn't around much... you
youngsters have it good. :-)
++Lar
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