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Re: Hardest Piece to remove?
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Sun, 28 Nov 1999 04:21:43 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@USWEST.NETnospam
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Jot and Jab wrote:
> > > I dunno... :) I'd have to say, separating a 6x8 plate from a stack of 10
> > > tightly squeezed 6x8 plates is harder than that. You can always bend the 4x4
> > > plate slightly to get the 1x2 grille tile started.
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> > > --Todd
> > Sure, but a STACK of 10? (ie rigid column) no doubt. I'm talking about normal
> > building tecniques and I'll wave the age limit. (12?)
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> As far as "normalcy" goes, I've drawn blood a few times separating two
> tighly-sealed 2x2 plates. Any bigger a plate and you can bend them just enough
> to create a seam into which a fingernail will fit. 2x2's are just too small,
> and God forbid they're old. I have more than a few of these with ugly,
> disfiguring gauges along the edges where a tack had to be probed into the seam
> to separate them.
I agree. My nastiest separations involved 2 2x2s.
-John
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> My backup submission here will be a 2x2 tile in the center of a large brick
> baseblate (a la BASIC from days of yore). It's completely inflexible, and
> unless you have fingernails of steel (which I don't), you can't do it without a
> probing, needle-like device (or a good, solid hammer).
>
> Dave (jot and jab)
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Hardest Piece to remove?
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| The hardest piece I have ever removed was a 2x3 plate from a one brick high basic baseplate. I actually had to resort to using my teeth, and I broke one of the brackets on my braces trying, cement and all. That was a few years ago, and I have since (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Hardest Piece to remove?
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| I would say that any brick where one of those gizmos (I am NOT saying the name but John Neal knows what I mean, he usually catches me out and throws bricks hard enough to hurt) can get a grip is NOT in the "hardest piece" contest. Not even close. 2 (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hardest Piece to remove?
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| (...) As far as "normalcy" goes, I've drawn blood a few times separating two tighly-sealed 2x2 plates. Any bigger a plate and you can bend them just enough to create a seam into which a fingernail will fit. 2x2's are just too small, and God forbid (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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