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Re: New modded parts
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Sat, 3 Feb 2007 01:16:05 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.mod, Mark Bellis wrote:
> Here's an update on my parts experiments. I've added quite a few Technic parts:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=187793
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> The expansion link http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=231111 ,
> based on a 1x3 thin liftarm, allows an axle or peg to slide in the 1x2 slotted
> hole. Very useful for steam engines:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1093550 (It would go vertically,
> in the middle of the picture)
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> A half double axle joiner (41678)
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=231108 has proved very useful.
> Several existing parts can be made from a pair of them, as well as several new
> configurations for positioning things in a small space.
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> My half pin without stud http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2291705
> has been around a while in steam engines. This pic shows the basic application
> of fixing together two thin liftarms in a total width of 8mm:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2291707
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> The 1x2 xo thin liftarm has also been in my steam engines and Apache helicopter
> for a while, but the 1x4 liftarm makes two of them conveniently:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2291714 This pic shows the
> basic application of changing rotary motion to linear motion in a small space:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2291716
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> This piece is the useful part of a technic 1xn plate that broke:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2291718 It's not only a 1x2
> plate with a hole at the end, it's also a 1x2 plate with 1 stud and 1 area of
> tile. Here's the top of it:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2291719
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> The 2mm wide quarter bush
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2291720 is one I've been using
> for a while now, particularly in the LMS Garratt steam engine for positioning
> the frames for the driving wheels in such a way that a train motor can rotate
> freely between them. Again, easy to make, just cut and file on a sacrificial
> axle on a 4000 rpm motor.
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> Please let me know what you think, particularly if you're not averse to modding!
> I intend to ask TLG why some of these have not been made properly by them since
> they're small, versatile parts rather than the chunky useless ones we see too
> many of.
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> Mark
Wow, those are some very good mods! I can definitely see the half-double axle
joiner perpendicular becoming very handy - for half unit increments, among other
things.
Sometime I'll compile my own part wish list, but I'm to laz-er-busy right now.
One handy thing is the tow ball pins. saw off the ball part and you get a nice
plug-type piece in X or O. I'll get pics up sooner or later.
--Peter
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| (...) Thanks :-) I thought of calling a half double axle joiner a "minim" because it looks like the musical note and it's a lot quicker to say! I've made quite a few of the X plugs you mentioned, but from axle pins because the ball parts are less (...) (18 years ago, 3-Feb-07, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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