Dear LEGO : 260


Dear LEGO / 260

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Steve Bliss

(...) And here I thought the 1x16 bricks were something of a juniorization -- they make it easier to build, are kind of bulky, and make it harder to modify. I tried to add a trailer hitch without replacing those 1x16 bricks, the best I came up with (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Larry Pieniazek

(...) I tried. Hard. The hitch rides too high if you don't. So my design uses a long plate, some propup shorter plates with a gap under the hitch pin, and a technic plate. I think there's a picture of the yellow version of this truck after my mods, (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Steve Bliss

(...) I'm glad I wasn't the only one. :) Steve (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Chris Moseley

Steve & Larry wrote (...) I had imagined just replacing the 2x2 grey tile with a 2x2 turntable. Does that not work? From my perspective the 16x1 bricks are simply hard to get, and at the scale I build they're not excessively large. A 1x16x5 (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Steve Bliss

(...) That's a straightforward solution (and it's suggested in the holiday S@H catalog). But it allows the trailer to separate from the tractor too easily. (...) Oooo. That would be juniorization. But it might be reasonably good juniorization, for (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Well, it "works" after a fashion, but I feel that the trailer is now at least 1 plate too high, and further, if you go over any kind of an incline, the trailer separates. I like using a pin or short cross axle into a technic plate instead (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Selçuk Göre

Just take a look at the instruction scans for 6367. Its connection system might work for you. Selçuk Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <36F83F9E.417274B@vo...er.net>... (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Steve Bliss

(...) That's a pretty good idea. Replace the 2x2 tile with a 3x2 plate w/ round-end and hole (ex: (URL)) and you're in business. The trailer still sits a bit too high, but at least adding the hitch mechanism isn't contributing to that problem. Steve (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Nico Hoogerbrug

Hi Larry, (...) It might be the same remark as Selcuk made but his set number does not tell me enough and I dont keep a count or list of all the set numbers they ever made. But in the Octan petrolcar was an small technic axle with and knob. That was (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Steve Bliss

(...) The problem with that (and what got us started here) is that the base of the 3442 Legoland California Truck (and its predecessor/twin, 2148 Imagination Celebration Truck) is a pair of 1x16 bricks, side-by-side, making a 2x16 solid core. The (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

hitch designs for articulated/semi trailer trucks (wasRe: Lego Truck in Wellington —Larry Pieniazek

Here's my net net on this discussion. The 2148/3442 (same design, different colors) design is flawed. A 2x2 turntable plate does not provide enough degrees of freedom. There are several other possible designs that do. The 6367, the 4549, and other (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build)

Re: Lego Truck in Wellington —Tom Stangl

(...) ...or properly lengthening the truck, adding on at least 3-4 studs of length to it. For my SWAT truck, I added 2 2x4 Technic plates, with a 2x2 plate on top of them, then a 2x3 plate fastening the 2x2 plate to the end of the 1x16 bricks. One (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)