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Re: 60 degree problem
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Date: 
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:30:55 GMT
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Steven Vore wrote:

I've got a couple of what I would call a 2x1 hinge set[1]:
   ___    _ ___
  |___|=  _|___|

Whoops, this is not what I thought. Typing too fast. If this is 2
plates, one with 2 fingers and one with 3 fingers on the end, which
coupled together take the same space as a 1x5 plate would, these are
"two finger" and "three finger" hinges. AucZILLA calls these

1x2 plate with 2 finger hinge
1x2 plate with 3 finger hinge

respectively.



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  Re: 60 degree problem
 
(...) Bingo! I'm not going nuts.[1] Thanks for the follow-up. I'll let you & Todd battle out the subtlies of "hinge" vs. "plate w/hinge fingers" :-) 1 - at least, not as far as Lego naming goes :-) -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
  Re: 60 degree problem
 
(...) I thought they were called 1x2 Plate w/ 2 Hinge Fingers 1x2 Plate w/ 3 Hinge Fingers there... If something is a 3-finger hinge, wouldn't it mean that it's a [full] hinge that has 3 fingers [total]? Say, speaking of which, Joshua once told me (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: 60 degree problem
 
(...) That was a help, thanks Larry. I just never had thought of its name before. (...) Yeah, I've got a bunch of those, but I always seem to run out of the black ones... (...) Lucida Console is all I use in discussion groups. But it still wasn't (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)

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