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Re: A wine rack I made today
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Date: 
Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:48:09 GMT
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It's nice to see such fruitfull and inspiring feedback.

In lugnet.castle, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
> > Also you would keep the ability to atach bottles to the studs, something not
> > possible when using the headlight bricks.
> 
> That's true, but your version shouldn't require headlight bricks, should it?

My LDraw mockup has been modeled with headlight bricks, based on their common
availability, and because I prefered to point the smooth top surface of the
tiles 1x2 all upwards in the same direction, instead of alternating bottom side
and top side up.

> > I think I will try to build the two solutions for real (maybe even a
> > combination of both), to see how practicly feasible these are.
> 
> I did a quicky test using a 1x1 with four studs just to see if a tile will
> fit between the two bricks, and it does work.  Since you'd be using 1x1
> bricks to hold everything on, ...[snip]

Sorry for that, I expressed myself a bit sloppy. I meant feasibility of using
long tiles and keeping these in place or combination of long tiles and bricks
1x1 with 3 studs. I believed you on your word (and on my imagination) that using
1x1 bricks with 3 studs and only 1x2 tiles would fit.

> Actually, I just realized something stupid.  If you alternate between 5-stud
> bricks and regular 1x1's, you can put all of the tiles
> around the 5-studs and just use the 1x1's to fill in the gap and pinch the
> > tiles  in place, making it considerably more feasible for the average builder.

Good thinking.

> The long-tiled look will still look a bit more realistic as an actual wooden
> construction, though (BTW, have you considered putting a 1x8 tile in the
> middle  slant so you don't have a break in the middle that would allow the
> pieces to spill out?).

Yes, I drawed the principle mockup fairly quickly (during my work break) not yet
knowing 100% what tiles would end up where. For a real attempt I agree I would
probably limit the heigth or witdh of the rack so that the maximum required
diagonal could be made with a single tile 1x8.

With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.



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  Re: A wine rack I made today
 
(...) Yeah, that was something I wasn't happy about with my idea, but I figured it wouldn't be so bad if you made sure the hollow-up tiles were covered with conveniently-placed wine bottles. Fortunately, it's actually possible to leave open (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)

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  Re: A wine rack I made today
 
(...) That's true, but your version shouldn't require headlight bricks, should it? (...) I did a quicky test using a 1x1 with four studs just to see if a tile will fit between the two bricks, and it does work. Since you'd be using 1x1 bricks to hold (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)

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