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Re: Warning when using 1 x 4 x 5 windows!
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lugnet.build, lugnet.parts.mod
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Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:05:27 GMT
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In lugnet.build, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.build, Tim David wrote:
> > Having designed a model in CAD and before I owned the part I assumed that the
> > hollow studs on the top of 1 x 4 x 5 windows would allow the small pins on
> > the bottom of 1 x plates and bricks to be placed on the stud, giving a half
> > stud offset similar to when using, for example, technic beams.
> > How wrong I was! I think the hole is too small, anyway if you're thinking of
> > doing it, don't!
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> Huh! In trying this with 67 windows of my own, I find:
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> - 8 windows have solid studs and won't ever work (7 black, 1 white)
> - 4 windows worked just fine (4 white)
> - 55 didn't work as you said (27 grey, 14 black, 6 white, 7 new grey, 1 pastel
> blue)
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> Since some were in new grey, I can only assume that these are the more recent
> window molds, and (probably) that the solid-stud versions are the oldest.
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> Since it seems like a silly change to make the molds NOT work, when they're
> obviously intended TO work, I wonder if they've never remolded this piece, and
> the newer varieties of ABS simply don't quite work with the old mold as well as
> they once did?
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> On a similar note, nearly the opposite is true for 1x4 technic rack pieces. The
> old style had solid little "plate pins", whereas the new ones have hollow ones.
> However, the NEW "plate pins" are too small to fit snugly with hollow studs! And
> no, the 1x4 technic rack's pins *don't* fit with the 1x4x5 window hollow studs.
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> DaveE
Thanks for the research. After some deliberating and opinion asking on
www.brickish.org I decied to drill out the four windows I need to work this way.
My first modded parts! My reasoning was that, as you said, some of the windows
available do work in this way so I was just creating some of them. It does seem
silly that they don't all work like this (ignoring the solid stud ones) when
they look like they are designed to do so.
Tim
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| (...) Huh! In trying this with 67 windows of my own, I find: - 8 windows have solid studs and won't ever work (7 black, 1 white) - 4 windows worked just fine (4 white) - 55 didn't work as you said (27 grey, 14 black, 6 white, 7 new grey, 1 pastel (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.build)
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