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Re: Lego Truck in Wellington
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:33:55 GMT
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:35:50 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
> Steve Bliss wrote:
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> > On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:24:59 GMT, "Moz (Chris Moseley)" <moz1@ihug.co.nz>
> > wrote:
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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...
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one. :)
Steve
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| 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)
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| | Re: Lego Truck in Wellington
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| (...) 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)
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