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Re: The Ubiquitous Half Stud Width Offset (and how to use it)
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:36:34 GMT
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Paul Hartzog <panarchy23@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Ubiquitous Half Stud Width Offset (and how to use it)
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> A new article added to the Aesthetics section
An interesting treatise. One area that I'm surprised to see missing
is the use of the cylinders in the bottoms of bricks and plates for
inserting studs into. For example you can center a 1x2 brick under a
2x3 brick.
Also, the second trick (using bricks whose studs have a hole in the
center) will not work in every situation - many of the longer 1x
bricks are shaped in a way that will not work on these. This is
because there is a "wall" of plastic which is used to make sure the
brick can't be squeezed or stretched. The "wall" on some of these
bricks connects to the posts which you would be inserting into those
studs. This is only a problem with some of the newer molds that Lego
uses.
Also, some of the older 2x2 inverse slope pieces have a different
shape stud that, even though it contains a hole, the hole in the stud
is too small to accomodate the "post" of a 1x brick or plate.
ObSpace: You can make a handy laser turret (Did I say laser? Sorry, I
forgot Lego Space is non-violent.. a directional antenna perhaps?)
out of a 1x2 "Half Stud Width Offset" plate and a 1x2 plate with two
lasers^H^H^H^H^H^Hantennae. Put the post on the underside of the
latter piece into the hole in the former's stud. It will swivel 360
degrees. (This is a trick I've been using since I was about 12, but
I've never seen it on anyone else's MOC so I thought I'd share it.)
--Bill.
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William R Ward hermit@bayview.com http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/
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