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Re: Lego Truck in Wellington
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:33:51 GMT
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:36:27 GMT, "Moz (Chris Moseley)" <moz1@ihug.co.nz>
wrote:
> Steve & Larry wrote
> > > > 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.
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> I had imagined just replacing the 2x2 grey tile with a 2x2 turntable.
> Does that not work?
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.
> From my perspective the 16x1 bricks are simply hard to get, and at the scale
> I build they're not excessively large. A 1x16x5 thinwall might be Technic
> juniorisation, but not a brick version of the standard 16 long Technic beam.
> That's more where I was coming from.
Oooo. That would be juniorization. But it might be reasonably good
juniorization, for large building. It would be much lighter than the
equivalent amount of bricks.
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 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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