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Re: How do YOU make your hangar bay doors?
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:58:25 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jordan Greer writes:
> I brought this up, again, after seeing an ancient article listed underneath
> the building tips section of the Galaction Shipyard (great site, Jon.)
> Anyhow, with my newest ship (grrr, I need a camera!!!) I constructed a very
> simple, yet effective door (it even locks itself) by simply using 4 train
> hinges, and attaching them so that the double doors (which are 2 studs thick
> and like 7 bricks tall) touch eachother and can open outward. It locks
> itself very effectively, and you don't have to perform any maintenance on
> it, since there's no mechnism to keep the doors in place...
Interesting. Train hinges?
Anyways, I recently built some doors that are 18 studs tall and 16 wide
each, and slide on a track apart and together. They are on the outside of
the ship so the surrounding surface of the ship is flat. I used the 1x4
with horizontal groove track part along with the 1x8 with the track
protrusion (common in SW sets, esp. the B-Wing). To prevent the doors from
falling off, the two tracks (at the top and bottom) are reversed.
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Door wraps around --> [-\| <-- Door
Track comes up underneath --> --/|
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Track mounted to bottom --> -] <-- Bottom of door with bracket on it
of bay.
If this doesn't make any sense, when I finally get the ship done, I'll post
pictures ;-)
-Tim
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 | | Re: How do YOU make your hangar bay doors?
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| Yup, train hinges. I just turned them at a 90* angle, attached them to the doors and ship, and I had a very strong, and simple door. Train hinges are actually great for this sort of thing... (25 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | How do YOU make your hangar bay doors?
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| I brought this up, again, after seeing an ancient article listed underneath the building tips section of the Galaction Shipyard (great site, Jon.) Anyhow, with my newest ship (grrr, I need a camera!!!) I constructed a very simple, yet effective door (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
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