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Re: all my mecha
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Date: 
Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:02:31 GMT
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about an hour after i posted i had this great idea to use the ball joints
from the legs and arms of the old throw bots. normally i would never
mutalate pieces like this but my dogs think they make great chew toys,
anyway I just use them in conjuction with the 2x1 bricks with the
cross-hairs and the female partsthus the legs have stability and withe armor
I put on it is hardly noticable.


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In lugnet.build.mecha, Peter McLoone writes:
Welcome to LUGNET Jacob. Of course I am still generally a new name in mecha
building here, new compared to builders like Mladen, but nonetheless I
usually display my mecha here. About the reliable hip joints, that is
something I have been experimenting with for years, while some seem to have
mastered it, I'm still working on it. While close to succeeding I am always
short of my intended goal. I'm hoping to have a very stable and neat looking
mecha named OmniBuster coming up soon, but it'll be awhile before that comes
out, as I've been concentrated on other things. Oh well, welcome to LUGNET!
and RANDOM ON!



In lugnet.build.mecha, Jacob Sullens writes:
   this is my first post, and i just wanted to ask if anybody has any
reliable hip joint designs for medium to large bots?



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  Re: all my mecha
 
(...) I really like the ball joints and my first mecha design. I used 6 per mecha. The mecha was small enough that a single ball joint was enough to hold the body up. but occasionly when the pose is extreme or too much off ballence weight is applied (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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  Re: all my mecha
 
Welcome to LUGNET Jacob. Of course I am still generally a new name in mecha building here, new compared to builders like Mladen, but nonetheless I usually display my mecha here. About the reliable hip joints, that is something I have been (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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