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Re: Lego Truck in Wellington
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:35:50 GMT
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lpien@iwantnospamANTISPAM.ctp.com
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:24:59 GMT, "Moz (Chris Moseley)" <moz1@ihug.co.nz>
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> > Well, the touring Lego Truck finally made it to where I am. Cool.
> >
> > So I bought a couple of the Maersk trucks, and a couple of the Lego
> > tractors. And met Grahame Reid at last. Now I see what the fuss is
> > about - these set are not Town Junior! If I was into Town or Train
> > I can see how I'd need a lot of these. The Lego truck especially is
> > a great set - two 1x16 bricks and a pile of useful parts. Wow. Now
> > I have to decide how many of them I want, having heard that Larry
> > is apparently due for 20-odd of them...
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> 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 was a magnet tile. Oh, well. Master
> Builder, I'm not.
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, showing the hitch area, in the container
section of my website.
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| (...) 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)
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