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| (...) 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
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| 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
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| (...) ...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)
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