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Re: Constructing Bay Doors
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Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:47:38 GMT
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At 12:42 AM 12/23/1999 , Tom McDonald wrote:
> Also, to return to yesteryear, a classic space design is to use the 1x2 x 1x2
> brick hinges to open up to equal halves of the back of the ship. I supposed
> that could be applied to bay doors that just swung outward. I was thinking
> that any entry guidance equipment could be located on the inside of the doors
> themselves, thus having such equipment be pointed outward when the doors were
> opened, and naturally guiding the ship inward as they close.
I like that idea, and the doors are rather strong. I have a method for
making those style doors, but I mostly use it for doorways into rooms on
larger vessels. The way my bay is on the (Melbourne) project, there's not
a lot of room to attach a door like that to it.
> But I suppose folks want a cleaner, smaller profile when opening those doors
> so that they don't get blown off. I've never done it, so my design is indeed
> suspect, but you could make tall, segmented doors 1 stud thick, each segment
> being 2 or 3 studs wide, that use the same 1x2 x 1x2 brick hinges, sit
> them on tiles, and have them scoot sideways; like a rolltop desk cover but
> sideways. Though you'd hafta make any corners navigable by introducting
> them at less than 90 degrees.
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> Part of a possible door track:
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> (space)
> ===============
> //
> // (cabin)
> ||
> ||
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> My ASCII art is poor here, but you could use those 3x3 diagonal bricks for
> use as track guides on the diagonal portions, and 1x1 tiles along the
> track in those diagonal areas. I'm using 3x3's because I couldn't think of
> anything
> that would make a nicer outer curve of doortrack (short of nice pieces no one
> would ever want to use as a mere doortrack). Inside the door track, one could
> easily use those 4x4 quarter-circle bricks.
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> The goal is to reproduce pieces that have already been made (the sliding
> garage door pieces of old, but going sideways instead).
Your method sounds like a challenge unless the edge of your doors have
rollers on them of some type. If you could find a way to attach 1x1
cylinder bricks to the edges of the door FIRMLY, then a track method could
be devised that's 1 stud thick. Still, it would be rough. The idea is a
bulky strong exterior door that's easily movable by hand or by a Technic or
Pneumatic mechanism.
> If someone tries this, LMK how it works out.
OTOH, if I had a bay where the door was x stories tall and a bay that's 2x
stories tall, I could try my hand at a vertical version of your sliding
door, which would work out nice.
-Tim
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| (...) On my current LDraw project, I have an airlock which features 2 of the 3 stud wide doors - slightly modified. Tom McDonald came up with this cool system to make a sliding door fit in 2 studs wide. I included the 3rd stud row for extra (...) (27 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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