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Re: Tired of click hinges - use technic pins with friction
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Sat, 22 Jul 2000 06:25:15 GMT
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Here's a little secret:
Put a small, narrow strip of Saran Wrap around each end of the black
friction pin. It'll work wonders for your mecha. You'll find that they can
support much more weight this way.
Enjoy.
~Mark
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
> From: ricocheting <ricocheting@hotmail.com>
> Organization: None
> Newsgroups: lugnet.build.mecha
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:40:43 GMT
> Subject: Re: Tired of click hinges - use technic pins with friction
>
> I have dozens of the black friction pins and no dacta sets so they must
> come in 'normal' sets somewhere. however for me, even the black pins
> only work on small mecha.
>
> most of my 8+ inch models won't even stand using two friction pins a
> joint. While the friction pins do keep joints from flopping, in my
> experiance there not near enough to hold up any good size model (using a
> simple swinging joint).
>
> -jonathan
>
>
> James Davis wrote:
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