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Re: Help with waist design
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:31:32 GMT
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JSPROAT@IO.spamcakeCOM
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John Gerlach wrote:
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Travis Dickinson writes:
> > Anyways, I have become frustrated with the 4x4 turntable part that I am using
> > as the waist.
> I
> just looped a rubber band (from an old Technic set!) around the 'base' piece,
> so that the 'top' piece sat over it in two spots. The rubber gave some
> friction between the two pieces, so it wouldn't turn - unless I wanted it to!
I used pretty much the same approach to tighten the 2x2 turntables -- I put a
piece of paper in between the top and the bottom halves.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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| Me, too. Ben -- Ben Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:38CEAFB4.B60590...@io.com... (...) using (...) piece, (...) it to! (...) put a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Help with waist design
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| (...) I have had good luck with a very 'low tech' solution to the 4x4 turntable: I just looped a rubber band (from an old Technic set!) around the 'base' piece, so that the 'top' piece sat over it in two spots. The rubber gave some friction between (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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