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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 (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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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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(...) Aww shoot...why don't you have a "soft seal" for ships that are meant to rearly dock together. This way you can forego the pegs altogether and just mash the ports together with your hands. Kiddie: "Look Dad! They're DOCKING!" <mash mash> (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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Sorry. I shoulda' been more specific... The last two pics on the page have labels of 'Two "wall" doors docking' and 'The "wall" and "floor" doors docking' and they're swapped when you look at the photos. As for the pegs burning off... "You mean (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Oops - correct you are! It's fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out. (...) I suppose it could be done, using the friction pins that are 3 studs long and have an axle socket at one end, but I think that'd make things too complicated on the (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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"William R Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message news:m21yp820p6.fsf@...iew.com... (...) You could always pretend they retract. ;-) (they're pretend spaceships afterall...grin, duck, run) -Tim (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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Bingo. Thanks, Tim : ) "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:GE335K.41q@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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"Xanthra47" <jmantor@nycap.rr.com> wrote in news:GE4LLK.3nC@lugnet.com: (...) two words: cargo shuttles. make them as big as you want. they're like cargo container ships (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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