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(...) Now you see why I jumped when I saw the piece? I had never seen anything like it before...At first, I thought it would be a MagaBlok, or some such offense against ABS. Rob (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Whoa there, daddio, I had to look at almost all the pictures of those sets before I understood what pieces that is. Calling it a tile and giving it a name like 1x1 Tile, Top Compartmented, 1x1 Top, 6H (in Black) doesn't take into consideration (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No, it doesn't (take that into consideration). The name comes from a day when I named things more for their modification of a defined element, rather than entire bounding-box approach to size. Since they're no longer made, I haven't had reason (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Me too! If only they'd appeared in white a few times (because of all the white corridor elements). I think they only appeared in black & blue. (...) In that nomenclature, how do you write fractional plate measurements? A plate is 2 LU tall, 1 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote: [...] (...) Take care. Some people use "LDU" for "LDraw Unit", which is 1/4 LU. (...) I don't know. I thought you, Paul or David [1] coined it? Somebody had enough humor (and sense) to suggest that "deciLU" (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oops! (...) Hmmm, (digging through rilly old RTL news archives) wow, looks like the term LU meaning 1/6 standard brick height goes back at least about 4 years -- it appears first to have been suggested on 23 Apr 1995 by Kevin Horton. In a (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) But 1/20 is even better. Trust me, I use it all the time. Sometimes, I have a hard time down-converting to something I can discuss with other people without explaining myself. --Steve Studs are spaced at 20 pitch, Plates are 8 units high. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Let me see then -- so 1/20 of a Gyugyi LU is equal to 1/2 of a Gyugyi dLU is equal to 2 Jessiman LDU? (...) :) --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Just curious, how far back have you archived RTL? Wasn't someone going to do a history of RTL at one point? (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Day 1, but not every article. (...) Jeff Crites started one. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Almost. 1/20 Gyugyi LU = *1* Jessiman LDU = .4 mm. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Now I'm thoroughly confuzzed. :) I thought Jacob said that an LDU = 1/4 LU, which would have been in reference to the LU which means 1/5 of the inter- stud spacing and 1/6 of a standard brick height. So a Jessiman LDU = 1/40 of the standard (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ah. We're refering to two different LU's. A Lehman LU (you brought it up in this thread first) is 1/2 plate-height. So the on-center spacing of studs can be expressed: 1 Gyugyi LU 5 Lehman LU 8 mm 10 Gyugyi dLU 20 LDU I would say the Lehman LU (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They appeared in Grey in 6952 "Solar Powered Transporter. Also, they don't work too well with the Octagonal corridor elements. They DO work well with the Double-sloped windows, however. (think Alien Moon Stalker, 6940) Jeff (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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