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Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
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Date: 
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 03:51:31 GMT
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:36:40 -0600, Mark Sandlin wrote
(in message <B59BC1D8.26AF%sandlin@nwlink.com>):

We-ellll.... ok, I'll admit it. I took the nearly-useless Throwbot shooter
arms and cut them off near the ball-joint (where there's a technic axle
shape) This allows them to be set into anything that can accept a technic
axle.

I also cut those stupid molded pistons off the Throwbot limbs. Now I can
actually put bricks around them.

I don't *ever* cut my Lego unless it is for the express purpose of making a
part more readily useable.

There. I said it.

Mark

(snipped my old question

Wow, you really did it.  I've been cussing those things for months.  What did
you use?


--
Thanks,
Ben

Ben Vaughan
buster@marsbase.com
http://www.marsbase.com



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  Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
 
I used a Dremel tool with a little rotary-saw type bit. It has a very thin edge, so I didn't lose very much of the plastic. ~Mark (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)

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  Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update!
 
We-ellll.... ok, I'll admit it. I took the nearly-useless Throwbot shooter arms and cut them off near the ball-joint (where there's a technic axle shape) This allows them to be set into anything that can accept a technic axle. I also cut those (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)

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