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Re: Outlet store in VA has Enchanted Island
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:55:58 GMT
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Will Middelaer <betamale@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Poindexter writes:
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> > I want those baseplates for spanning across multiple runs of track
> > underneath mountains. Gotta have multi-level trains if you are building • 20
> > bricks high, otherwise, it is just a waste of 2x4s.
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> Do you envision any problems using those weird baseplates with the round • notch
> bit out of them? They are hard to use as multiples if you want to hook • them
> together flush in some sort of interlocking L's pattern.
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> Will
I will be covering the tops of them, so I don't see much of a problem. I
just need them to be able to span long distances and 24 bricks is about as
far as you will find in a Lego brick. Anything longer than that is a
baseplate, which doesn't snap into Lego very easily (unless you sandwich
them, which eats a lot of 1xN plates). My only other span option would have
been using technic, and it is tough to get several hundred 1x16's. If the
notch gave me some problems, I could put one plate on top of another with
the notches in opposite corners or stagger them in a similar fashion for
even longer spans
Besides, if I put 4 baseplates in a square, I would still have a 7.5" hole
in the middle that I could run my hand through, should a train derail in an
otherwise hard to reach place. The notches are both a liability and an
asset to the plate, it just depends on the circumstances.
Mike
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| (...) GMLTC has several dozen of these, and the corresponding 1/4 circle piece, and that's what they do, sandwich two of them together with the 1/4 circle pieces in different corners. These are great to make the center of a module lighter. (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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