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Re: anyone got any working chicken walker joint systems?
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Date: 
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:41:48 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Christopher Kalos writes:
Wow... where do you get the "hazard stripe" and 2x1 double ended click
hinges from?

There was (is?) a town set.  It's a powerloader type thing, set number 6474.
I'd call Lego Shop at home if you're interested, they probably still have some.


And... wow again.  The tbird's kinda scary, in that you managed to pull it
off.  Most of my attempts are in making transformable mecha (without popping
off any pieces, at that) so I usually don't have the luxury of working at
such a large scale, due to the potential for joint stress.

Raptor

T-birt was a little wobbly, that's why I took it apart rather quickly.  But
I got to try again.  Maybe I'll call it T-birdII.
You should see Mark Sandlin's transforming spiffcraft for ideas for
transforming mecha.  It looks good, not too big, and works very well.
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego/spiffco/spiffdx/


Build on

Mark



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  Re: anyone got any working chicken walker joint systems?
 
Wow... where do you get the "hazard stripe" and 2x1 double ended click hinges from? I've been toying around with click hinges myself, and have realized that I often get stuck due to a lack of small pieces such at those. And... wow again. The tbird's (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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