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hitch designs for articulated/semi trailer trucks (wasRe: Lego Truck in Wellington
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lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build
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Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:32:02 GMT
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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 sets all provide ideas. Myself, I got the 4549 first so I
decided that all my tractors and trailers had to have a "compatible"
hitch mechanism with it, so I could interchange them all.
That required reengineering my 2148s. While I was at it I made some
other small changes too. That's what LEGO is all about, making changes
to improve stuff to suit.
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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