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Re: A project suggestion= Let's develop a Theme ourselves....
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Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:37:28 GMT
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I made an elevated platform that has 2 space landing plates on top of a brick
frame work. I set the plates right on the studs though. This makes the
baseplates perfectly even with normal plates around the baseplates. Maybe I
should take a picture. (I really need a digital camera :-)
-Lord Insanity
In lugnet.cad, Alex Farlie writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Frank Filz writes:
> > In lugnet.cad, Alex Farlie writes:
> > > Perhaps we could have a lock plate at the upper end of 'canal' built using
> > > the theme? The problem is then how you suppourt the uuper plates?
> >
> > A cool element would be a 16x16x4 part which is intended to support a
> > baseplate. 4 of them of course would be used to support a 32x32 baseplate. The
> > part would have a flat top (but it could be lacy to reduce weight, it just
> > needs to be strong enough to support a baseplate). The part should be set up
> > so a bunch of 2x4 bricks to interlock them (4 plate thicknesses below the top
> > surface so the studs don't intefere with the baseplate). The bottom should at
> > a minimum have 2x2 tube sections at each corner (and probably one in the
> > middle, in fact, having them at the middle of each side would be good). There
> > would be webbing between the 2x2 columns to provide bracing.
>
>
> you mean something like
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> ----------------
> |00|\ /|00|
> |00| \ / |OO|
> |-- |--|
> ....
>
> 00
> 00 is a 2x2 tubed section...
>
>
> Agree with you about needing interlocking. - Actaully perhaps 16X16X3 might be
> better. Then you could use it other purposes. But I think this might make the
> interlocking more difficult to add in? (NB to part authours anbody prepared
> to do a mock up of this perosns ideas....?) You could then use 8x8's to put in
> the last 2/3 and then use small tiles on top? I am thinking of this becuase
> you might want to dismantle the scheme (eventually in the far future ;-) )
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> > Now that tiles are easy to get, you can build a support relatively easily
> > yourself.
>
>
> I'll try building on MLCAD thanks...
>
>
> > Another part I would like to see is a 32x32x1.x (or at least 16x32) part which
> > basically with a plate sitting on it is a total of 4 plates thick. The part
> > would provide support for the plate, thus allowing plates to be used as upper
> > floors and whatnot.
>
>
> Mw too </AOL>
>
> > > or produce a workable lock in between easilly?
> >
> > An easy way to do it would be to basically build an elevator. The lower lock
> > gates could be the large wooden doors used in Ninja, or a new part. The upper
> > gates would be just a couple bricks high. The elevator unit would have the
> > lower part of the upper gates simulated, and would of course have the hinge
> > points for the doors, plus the elevator mechanism. The elevator should be
> > cranked by a windlass type arangement which sticks up through a hole on the
> > walkway beside the lock (and of course actually represents the gate operating
> > machinery - I think the gates are often opened by some kind of wheel or
> > windlass, at least on smaller locks if I remember from my childhood).
>
> OF course this assume UK or at least european style locks.
>
> A pure design using only exsiting parts might,on a dry system
> be to use 2 16x1 technic sterring racks to form an incline and mount a
> platform on axles that rest on the rack? You would still need strings but at
> least ITIW (I think it would ) not need new parts.
>
> Again I probably need to draw this in MLCAD to explain it!!!
>
> Alex
>
> >
> > Frank
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