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Re: Would it be a good idea if LEGO made metal axles?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:31:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Allan Kolenovsky wrote:
> If LEGO made metal axles, that limitation would be removed and it would be
> possible to scale up to much larger sizes. On the other hand, I am not sure if
> the existing plastic parts that are made to mate with the plastic axles would
> still work with metal ones. Does anyone out there have any ideas as to whether
> or not this might work? Has LEGO ever considered releasing metal axles?
I remember Travis Kunce tried it once with one of his amusement park rides, and
it seemed to work pretty well:
http://news.lugnet.com/technic/?n=10874
Of course, it's just a matter of time before the cogs on your gears or the
fittings for the axles become too stressed to handle the weight, but certainly
it seemed that the metal axle Travis used took things up a notch in terms of
weight.
DaveE
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| Hi folks. I love to build semi-functional scale models of various vehicles out of LEGO. In my never ending effort to make my models look like the real things, I have had to constantly scale up my productions. I am beginning to hit a barrier now, (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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