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    Re: Play "I can name that piece..." —Todd Lehman
   (...) 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)
   
        Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Jacob Sparre Andersen
     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)
    
         Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Todd Lehman
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Steve Bliss
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Todd Lehman
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Steve Bliss
      (...) Almost. 1/20 Gyugyi LU = *1* Jessiman LDU = .4 mm. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Todd Lehman
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Steve Bliss
      (...) 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)
    
         Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Paul Foster
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...") —Todd Lehman
     (...) Day 1, but not every article. (...) Jeff Crites started one. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Play "I can name that piece..." —Jeff Stembel
   (...) 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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