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Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
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Date: 
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:57:42 GMT
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Steve & All,

The only point that I don't really prefer, is the landing gear. After being
chastised by Grand Admiral Muffin Head over using similar gear on my
freighter, I've crossed lines to join the ranks that prefer the click hinges
for gear.

At the first MichLUG meeting, there was a ship with a very cool, but simple
design for landing gear.  Here are some picture links:

<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=40433>
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=40434>
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=18614>

Hey, I took those pictures! ; ) I wish I would have gotten more! Scott was
having too much fun to worry about pictures! : )

Unfortunately, they're all detail shots, and the ship is upside down.

The basic idea is to put together two pairs of part 2880, the rod with
hinge-fingers at each end
(<http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=2880>).  mount the paired
arms at right angles to each other.  This gives a very compact gear that
retracts straight into the ship.  The bottom of the gear-pad can be used as
the cover to the hole.  It's really cool.

Unfortunately, I don't remember who did this very cool ship, so I can't give
proper credit!  So I'm crossposting to MichLUG--who brought this ship?

That ship is Mark Koesel's creation, an M-Tron MOC, which I loved to death.
I took the picture of the landing gear because I thought it was so
inivative. He had a 1x1 cone on top, which stuck out a little on the wing,
so you can push n that to get the landing gear out. I still need to try
that, it is impressive. Mark is usually a TECHNIC guy, but he is a great
builder. His walking spider mech was also awesome.

Ah, fond memories. Back to work!! : )

Scott S.
--



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  Re: Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
 
(...) You took the first two. Trevor took the third. Or at least, that's what the MichLUG site tells me. (...) Thank you, Scott! I totally couldn't remember. My bad. (...) Doh! I had forgotten that part! Steve (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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  Landing Gear (was: My MOC Fighter Plane (first posted))
 
(...) At the first MichLUG meeting, there was a ship with a very cool, but simple design for landing gear. Here are some picture links: (3 URLs) Unfortunately, they're all detail shots, and the ship is upside down. The basic idea is to put together (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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