 | | Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...) —Duane Hess
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| | | James Brown writes: <SNIP> (...) My big gripe is the 1 x 2 plate 2 finger and 3 finger hinge pieces. TLG does a good job matching colors in sets, but I always end up with two 1 x 2 plate 2 finger hinge pieces in white (1) and two 1 x 2 plate 3 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) I wouldn't count hinge-plates in pairs, because there are a fair number of elements with 2- or 3-finger hinges which aren't paired -- the control lever (rod with end-stud and 3-finger hinge), the robot finger (3L rod with 3-finger hinge at one (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...) —Duane Hess
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| | | | (...) a (...) a (...) the (...) OK Point well taken. I was speaking strictly from the instance where the hinges are used in pairs. I can see not including the mating hinge half when using it with other elements, but my opinion remains unchanged when (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Ah, NOW i get it. Is this it? "Suppose you have a model that for artistic reasons should have blue white hinges. Fine. Make one blue end the 2 end and the other blue end the 3 end, when possible. Ditto for white Then the builder later has one (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...) —Duane Hess
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| | | | | (...) Correctamundo (...) I can see their point in the manufacturing/packaging processes. With their volume though, the added costs should be minimal. Think about the variety of parts in many of their sets. I could argue this point for quite a while (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Not to mention what it would do to their molding production runs... The 'hinge runs' are relatively small (hinges aren't *that* common), and alternating colors would give them twice as many hinge runs, each at half the size. Steve (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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