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| (...) 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. (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) 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 | (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) This is true. My two copies of 8846 Tow Truck has these. They tended to break pretty easily, so it's a nice thing they were substituted. (URL) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I have two of these also (in red) from an Expert Builder (?) helicopter which I bought form a friend along with the rest of his LEGO. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| and then Steven learned more about Acuzilla and it's part naming, and life was much better... 1x2 Plates w/ 2 End Hinge Fingers (URL) Plates w/ 3 End Hinge Fingers (URL) I'm a freakin' genius now, eh? :-) -- -Steven | Smile, Mickey's Watching | TDC (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Ya, Ya, Ya... I was typing fast and working from memory. You're right. I was close enough, though. ++Lar (in Walnut IA!) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) transmission[1]), in red. On the new kind, though, the round recess in the fingers get their edges bent out when the mating round raised is slid past when disassembling. The same thing happens, slightly less so, with the 4-wide hinged roof (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| Okay, I'll bite -- how do you get 7/6 to be anywhere close to SQRT(3)? 7/6 is 1.167, and SQRT(3) is 1.732. Is there an additional 2:3 ratio hidden inside the "8880 transmission"? Also, I'm having a little trouble figuring out how the transmission (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) the (...) No, I just failed to mention that I gear down by 2, then up by 7/6; which is quite close with 1.714. Both have the same center distance, which is extremely helpful with the 8880 setup. (...) and (...) Yes it is. Why it is spread I (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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