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Re: LEGO tissue boxes
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Sun, 9 Apr 2000 23:43:27 GMT
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You know your obsession with the brick has gone to far when you start
decorating your house with Legos. I think the're cool.
Cale
In lugnet.fun.crafts, John Gramley writes:
> While working on some Easter eggs to go with the bunny I built, I had to blow
> my nose. I just happened to stare too long at the tissue dispenser and
> realized I could make one out of LEGO. Well, I put the egg plans aside,
> grabbed two different sizes of tissue boxes and built these.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=324
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> The blue dispenser is 32 bricks long and 17 wide. It's 10 bricks high. The
> walls are 1 stud thick. The top 'brick' layer is made of 3 layers of plates
> to span the unsupported middle. The opening is 5x20.
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> The black dispenser is 16 bricks long and 17 wide, with 1-stud walls. This
> one is 15 1/3 bricks high. It has the same kind of top layer with an opening
> that is 5x10.
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> I don't know if these dimensions will fit every brand of box but adjustments
> can easily be made. Neither dispenser is complicated (they went together very
> quickly and without problems) but each takes up a good portion of 1xn bricks.
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> When I get more time I'm going to work on some 'designer' boxes with
> patterns. Then, maybe I'll get to leave it out where company might see them
> instead of keeping them locked up in my work room.[1]
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> LMKWYT!
>
> John Gramley
>
> [1] Actually, my wife thinks they're cute. I'm just glad she didn't send me
> to the funny farm when I showed them to her. ;)
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