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Re: Best "practical" use of LEGO?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 4 Oct 2005 00:29:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, William R. Ward wrote:
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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
3. Someone posted on LUGNET a couple years ago that they had built a holder
for their electric toothbrush out of LEGO TECHNIC parts; I built one too
4. My wife uses small interdental brushes that happen to fit nicely in TECHNIC
peg holes, so I built a little LEGO brush holder for her
What practical uses have you found for LEGO?
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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 replace the missing bolt, and my spontaneous vacuum decomposition problems
were at an end!
Adrian
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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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| 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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