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Re: The Law of Falling Lego
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 1 May 2000 04:12:40 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
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> All the boxes my LEGO is sorted into are rather large, so while building,
> I tend to stack them around me. However, in order to be able to reach
> certain pieces, I often have to move boxes around or shift them, so most
> of the time, the boxes are precariously balanced. When I reach over to
> grab a box just out of reach, I sometimes lose my balance and set my hand
> into the unsupported portion of one of these precariously balanced boxes.
> If I'm lucky, the pieces spill only onto the carpet, and not into half a
> dozen other boxes...
I can relate to Brams last comment about pieces falling into the wrong
boxes--this has happened to me more than a few times.
As for the problem of dropping/falling Lego, this does not trouble me much at
all. Since the day Lego was brought into my life, I have been building on the
floor. 25 years of sitting on the floor playing with Lego has not been kind to
my knees, but that is another topic.
By builidng on the floor, the dropped piece has nowhere to go--it is already
quite near the floor.
A tip for those of you in search of that dropped piece--
USE A FLASHLIGHT.
Keep a flashlight on your building table and you can then quickly spot that
missing piece, no matter where it has fallen--90 percent of the time, anyway.
As for cats snatching Lego bricks, I suggest using bait. A bunch of old Yellow
2x2 bricks work well and are somewhat easy to locate when searching for them
again. Simply throw one to the cat when he/she approaches or looks hungry for
some plastic to chew and kidnap.
__Kevin Salm__
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| (...) placing (...) trying in >vain to grab hold of something, you fall over, either onto... 3) the tub that >the rest of your Lego is in, splitting the tub open and causing the contents >to spill out everywhere. The last one has actually happened (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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