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Re: Heavy duty mecha (or other) joint
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Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:56:27 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
   this is a heavy duty one-axis-of-rotation joint i’ve had in my mind for a while so i figured i’d Mlcad it & post: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jeff-S/Space-Mecha/Misc-Ideas/HeavyDutyJoint/heavydutyjoint01.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jeff-S/Space-Mecha/Misc-Ideas/HeavyDutyJoint/heavydutyjoint02.jpg

Jeff, that’s pretty cool.

I wonder what would happen if you put a 2x2 cylinder brick:



inside of a couple 1x4x1 arches:



Is that possible with some SNOT to hold the arches together?

--Todd



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  Re: Heavy duty mecha (or other) joint
 
(...) Yep, but to get the joint strength, you'll need to re-inforce the sides of the cylinder brick. Solution: switch to an r2-d2 body instead like so: (2 URLs) This way, not only do you have your joint, but you have SNOT wherever you need it. It's (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)

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  Heavy duty mecha (or other) joint
 
this is a heavy duty one-axis-of-rotation joint i've had in my mind for a while so i figured i'd Mlcad it & post: (URL) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)

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