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Re: Tyco problems and structures that Rock!
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
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Tue, 26 Nov 2002 01:59:15 GMT
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I seem to have found a solution. Half way up I put one solid layer of Lego
bricks. That seems to counteract the curl.
Alan
In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Alan Findlay writes:
>
> > By the time I had built the dike on the Lego baseplates, I noticed that the
> > ends (32 studs apart) seemed to be "curling" up. The addition of the wall
> > did not alter this curl. So, the whole wall kinda "rocked" end to end. As a
> > result, the connection at the end to the next section was poor -- tight at
> > the bottom, about 1-2 mm gap at the top (7 bricks high).
> >
> > I removed the wall from the dike, and tested each part separately. The dike
> > part (mostly Tyco) rocked. The wall part (Megablok) sits flush on the table.
> > The conclusion I draw is that the Tycos do not have a good fit. So I guess
> > I'll have to ditch the Tycos in the dike (no pun intended) and remake it
> > with Megabloks and Legos.
> >
> > Have others experienced fit problems with Tyco's?
>
> That's an interesting problem. I don't have enough bulk Tyco bricks to
> run a real comparison, but I've noticed exactly the problem you describe
> when I've built long structures with MegaBloks. When I tried to build a
> 144-long church using 2x4 bricks for much of the base, I found that the
> bricks didn't sit properly on the 48x48 plates I was using. In the end I
> chose to skip the baseplates, and the whole structure seemed to rest okay on
> my wood floor.
> The "curling" you cite must result from a small imprecision, hard to
> detect in individual bricks, but annoyingly apparent when a large number of
> bricks are joined. You might lessen the effect by interspersing your
> MegaBloks with true LEGO bricks, but I've never experimented too much with
> that technique.
>
> Dave!
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