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Re: New MOC: L-21 Mobile Multi-Role Platform (MMP)
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:41:07 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Mladen Pejic wrote:
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The railgun turrets are connected to the body with my
joint-stiffening technique
that I’ve been using since the MWP.
However, I had to modify it sideways by using this arrangement:
 
 
So yes, it is a bit weak, because the turret wants to slip off of the 2x2
round brick. With a few rotations up and down, it eventually comes off. :-(
As for the railgun connection to the turrets, that is done with two of those
new blue technic axle pins (3749), which are stiff enough to support the
lateral movement of the guns.
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OK--I’d wondered if you were using the soft-plastic-rod stiffening technique
in this somehow. Is there no way to use the 4x4 round brick, which also has
a center axle groove? It might hold the guns better, though I don’t know
what effect it will have on the circular barbette made with those new black
pieces (and which I hadn’t noticed were in fact made of those until looking
through all the pictures just before posting--it’s that seamless, and looked
like a stack of 8x8 round plates/4x4 quarter rounds at first--but I like the
“dimpled” effect this way much better).
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Actually, sometimes the whole turret, including the 2x2 round brick, slips off
the axle peg. So, I don’t know if the 4x4 round brick would work any better. But
it’s a good suggestion nonetheless, and I regret not trying it out.
The real problem is the actual nature of the bricks with axle holes. Their
connections to such a short axle is always weak.
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Agreed on the spiffiness of the new friction axle pegs, though I don’t use my
blue ones much--now that I have enough of them in black!
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I didn’t know they come it black too... I have to get my hands on some of those.
:-)
Mladen Pejic
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| (...) OK--I'd wondered if you were using the soft-plastic-rod stiffening technique in this somehow. Is there no way to use the 4x4 round brick, which also has a center axle groove? It might hold the guns better, though I don't know what effect it (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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