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Re: Docking system
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lugnet.space
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Mon, 28 May 2001 04:07:34 GMT
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It's simple and sweet, but as others pointed out it would be desireable
to not have to worry about the "sex" of the rings. What if you replaced two
of the corner "sockets" on the female wall port with "pins" from the male
wall port. Make sure that you replace them on a diagonal. That'd make a
univeral wall docking ring that would provide 2 possible mating orientations
for any pair of craft that use them. You could probably do the same for the
floor/roof rings too.
-Xanthra47
PS. Your pictures don't agree with your labels. I think they got swapped
somehow : )
"William R Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message
news:m28zji1glj.fsf@komodo.bayview.com...
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> I put together some mock-ups of my ideas for a docking ring. You can
> view them at this URL:
> http://www.wards.net/~bill/lego/space/docking/
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> Feedback is welcome...
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> --Bill.
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> --
> William R Ward bill@wards.net • http://www.wards.net/~bill/
> (formerly known as hermit@bayview.com)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- • ---
> Life is too important to take seriously.
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| (...) The penalties you pay for that are too great - the "male" pegs would burn off during re-entry on a surface-to-orbit craft, and the limitation of orientations is too high a cost for me. I really don't think it's a problem - you don't have two (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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| I put together some mock-ups of my ideas for a docking ring. You can view them at this URL: (URL) is welcome... --Bill. (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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