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Re: Modifying parts; was RE: Two original Technic creations
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:07:32 GMT
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John Barnes <barnes@sensors.comAVOIDSPAM>
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Ok, so us brick grinders can finally come out of the closet
and admit our crimes without fear of retribution ...
Here are a couple of basic categories to start with.
1. Addition of holes.
I have added carefully placed holes in the sides of things like the
6 x AA battery box to take the very short grey pegs. This means you
can anchor the battery box between technic beams. I find the weight
of 6 x AA can easily cause the battery box to drop out of its mounting.
2. Cutting.
I have modifed a number of technic pieces, mainly the newer ones. The
twice bent technic beam, which if you buy a lot of more modern sets,
you end up with a bunch of, you can cut at the bend to make shorter
straight beams. (This cut can be very carefully done around the outside
of the last inline hole leaving a nice smooth rounded end. You end up with
a long one and a short one. I discard the remaining piece with the slot.)
I also cut up the strange leg things in the newer slizer type sets. You can
salvage the ball and about half an inch of technic cross axle. This enables
you to use spherical connections to other technic parts.
3. Gluing
I have glued a couple of times, but not to artificially strengthen
constructions
directly - even I think that's cheating! What I have done is to mitre a few
technic
beams and then glue them together, making a kind of right angle beam. (So
that all the studs are along the top, and axle holes are around the side.)
Then there's truely "Fake parts"
The only fake parts I use are;
a) specialised sensors and electrical goodies of one sort or another like
speech
decoder boxes and phone cord untangler based turntables for example
and;
b) thin nylon washers to take up the play in certain gear trains when I'm
trying to
eliminate slop.
Ok .... I'm ready for sentencing
JB
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