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Re: Space Cargo Container Standard?
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:45:33 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jeff Findley wrote:
> Even though I rarely start threads on Lugnet, I thought this topic is ripe for
> discussion.
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> We've seen from the recent thread, http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=32226
> Trainhead gives space a whirl, that there seems to be some interest in a Space
> Cargo Container Standard.
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> Drawing on the above thread, I'd guess that you'd want both ends of the cargo
> container to conform to the existing standard for a Moonbase Corridor connection
> (i.e. 8 studs wide with the 2 1x2 bricks with hole in the proper place).
> Furthermore, it seems that 8 studs wide works for trains.
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> I'm not sure about the height. The ends of the Moonbase Corridor are 7 bricks
> and two plates high. It might be nice to extend this a bit both up and down so
> that a standard can be made for the top and bottom that will allow stacking of
> containers. Perhaps there is a technique to be borrowed from Trains?
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> As for the length, Moonbase Modules are 48x48 studs. If you choose to make them
> 16 studs long, three containers in length is exactly the length of a Moonbase
> Module. This allows containers to be used as expansion modules on a moonbase.
> It's also exactly twice the standard width of the Moonbase Corridor, which will
> make the containers the same width vs. length ratio as the classic 2x4 brick.
> What do others think about a standard length?
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> Comments, suggestions, flames?
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> Jeff
When I was working on the containers last year, I fooled with an adapter
couplers to join the containers to the moonbase corridors. It's been long
disassembled, but I'm going over the old sketches that I had and am in the
process of rebuilding some of them with Jake's standard to see how they
mesh....I'll do the same with the couplers.
-G
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