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(...) alignment then? Even so, you'll have four pegs to separate (two from each side). Have you tried building two of them in real life and seeing how easy/hard they are to separate? --Bill. (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.space)
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(...) snip (...) Yes. (...) No--i'm gonna try tho' Jeff (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Have you tried building two of them in real life and (...) I tried--they seem to come apart easier than they lock together. I also think building them into the actual hardpoint wall of a ship/station would give it the added strength--if not (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.space)
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(...) oops i linked to the cad version & not to the real version--duh! (URL) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I think though for smaller ships it would probably be excessively large. Perhaps we need several standard sizes, and larger ships can have both types... (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.space)
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(...) snip (...) I definitely agree with the multiple sizes thing; a full-size cargo-capable hatch would be so blocky for a fighter scale ship so obviously a small 'floatable' pass thru like what is on the real space shuttle would do. next size (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.space)
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In lugnet.space, Jeffrey M. Szklennik wrote: Snip (...) new links (yeah it was more than a couple days!) i just realized the docking port was left out in my re-org.: (2 URLs) Jeff (19 years ago, 20-Jun-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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