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| | | What uses have you put LEGO to that are for practical reasons? Let me give some examples to illustrate: 1. Eric McCarthy's napkin holder made of LEGO 2. I use 2x4 bricks as leveling shims for furniture in areas where the floor is not entirely flat (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Jason Allemann
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| | | | | (...) I made a mousetrap (non-killing variety) out of LEGO a few years ago when I had a mouse rooting around the house. It almost sort of worked too. The mouse triggered it once but managed to escape. Unfortunately the initial design had a few (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —David Koudys
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| | | | | In lugnet.general, William R. Ward wrote: <snip> (...) Well, I was having a problem with the toilet mechanism--the stopper wouldn't fall down after the water drained out of the tank. I thought that adding some weight to offset the center of gravity (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) My home is about 80 years old, but the windows pre-date the invention of glass. As such, the storm windows tend to rattle mightily when even the faintest zephyr passes. To remedy this, I've inserted three- and four-brick stacks of LEGO 2x4 (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —David Koudys
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| | | | | | | In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler wrote:' <snip> (...) I use a rolled up wool sock for that same issue... Dave K (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's funny--I make extensive use of rolled-up wool socks in my MOCs. Dave! (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —C. L. GunningCook
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| | | | | | (...) LOL! I use stacks of bricks for a few of my old windows as well... but in a slightly different way. I also have a very old home, with old double hung windows on pulley systems. A few of the cords have snapped with age, so getting the window to (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —James Wilson
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| | | | | LEGO makes a nice box for containing RTV silicone mold-making compound. Lots of scale modelers use it when making molds for making cast-resin parts. My son uses it to make little "arenas" for his hermit crabs to play in. (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | (...) Not by myself, but... A lot of schools round the world are using my BlockCAD (Virtual Lego) program to teach pupils both geometry and beginner's CAD. Does it count :-) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Virtually;-) JOHN (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) Bird toys. We have a Rainbow Lory[1] named Stitch. He loves to play with lego pieces. Kind of an exploratory thing -- he checks out every nook and cranny. He's totally fascinated by texture and shape. Kind of like an infant -- he sticks (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:InsK7C.13DJ@lugnet.com... (...) Those are wonderful ideas. Thanks for sharing. We have a sun conure parrot that would love to play with dah laygoez. (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | | (...) One of my colleagues at work has an iPOD holder out of Lego. At various times I've had different pen/pencil cups made out of Lego, and I had a 32 x 32 mouse pad covered in green & black tiles until I needed the tiles.... Paul Sinasohn LUGNET (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) Not me, but here's a couple of ideas: Borderline practical: (URL) more practical: (URL) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Adrian Drake
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| | | | | (...) The bolt that held the handle to the base of my vacuum cleaner fell out, so the thing kept falling apart when I tried to pick it up. It turned out that a 6 long technic axle with a bushing at each end was the perfect length and diameter to (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Michael Zecca
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| | | | | | A 180 degree oval turn of track fits perfectly with the shorter dimension of my old lab demo table, so I set up a long oval (to get the trains past the sink) and crashed some of my Lego trains together to demonstrate conservation of momentum and (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Aaron Amatnieks
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| | | | | (...) <snip> Bookends. Works fairly well, as long as you remember to invert the plate every few months (the bottom plate tends to warp over time) Aaron A (19 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Oliver Giesen
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| | | | | G'Day How 'bout keyring holder? Thick base plate screwed to wall (one by front door, one in kitchen), technic brick on keychain, ya get home, snap brick onto base plate, and viola ! ya always know where your keys are! Cheers Oliver Play Well ! "Bill (...) (19 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Greg Kramer
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| | | | | (...) I made a cover for the buttons on the front of our television to prevent our toddler(s) from pushing them and turning the TV on and off. Using black tiles as the front, it blends right in. My daughter is now 5 and still does not know that it (...) (19 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Braith Garden
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| | | | | (...) I once used a technic pulley wheel attached to a couple of technic liftarms to replace the seal (spline) in a screen door. I just wheeled it over the seal to push it into the slot which holds the wire mesh and voila! I also have a few old grey (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Carl Merriam
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| | | | | Last year, I decided to remove the very obsolete and entirely nonworking (not to mention unserviceable) electric parts from my ‘60s era electric/acoustic Accordion. This made it about 20 pounds lighter, but also left two rather large holes in the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | (...) I lost my Palm stylus, so now I use a red #12 axle and a red bushing. Kev (19 years ago, 8-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Rob Antonishen
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| | | | I just came across this: (URL) from back in 2004 - a RCX operated yarn winder (URL) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Very Cool! But I wonder if the RCX servers any useful purpose? Mechanically, it looks like the system is all a single gear-chain (well, somewhat indirectly). So the RCX would only serve to adjust motor speeds. There's some explanation, further (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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