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Droopy Star Destroyer
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Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:33:48 GMT
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When the Star Destroyer came out last year, I got one for Christmas and of
course put it together right away. It had a place of honor on my desk. Lately,
though, I’ve noticed the nose drooping. So I took the bridge assembly off and
things started shattering, which had never happened before. So I disassembled
it, and found some pieces had been bent, most noticeably the long Technic beams:
A few more pictures here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=54869
Several were bowed up, some down, depending on their orientation to the stress
points in the structure. I’d never seen a LEGO model that bent over time under
its own weight before.
Anyone else have anything like this happen? I find it unusual that a model would
have so much stress on it that the pieces would deform. BTW, the model wasn’t
moved much after it was put together, or subjected to any other kinds of unusual
environment... it has always been in the same place in a controlled environment.
I’ll probably put it together again at a later point, if the pieces aren’t too
whacked, In the meantime I’m scavenging parts for a Battlestar Galactica moc
(trying to use just the SD pieces).
Kelly (Binkmeister)
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Message has 8 Replies:
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| I got one for Christmas too! I noticed that it was buckling after just a few weeks of being together. I think I took it apart after a month to save the bricks. Dave "Kelly McKiernan" <kelly@anagrafyxx.com> wrote in message (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Mine has been on display for 9 months so far with no problems. However, I had noticed early on that there was a potential problem with the nose. My quick fix (which seems to have held up nicely) was to move the front main support from it's intended (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) I bought one when it came out and put it together right away. I took it apart a few days ago. I too had four bent grey beams, but not as bad as yours. But you can still see that they're warped. Some of the black ones are also bent ever so (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| I had my Star Destroyer together for over 5 months. I did notice the long Technic beams bending in the frame. When I took it apart, I thought that some might stay that way, but none of them did. The more I disassembled, the straighter they got. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) <DELURK> I've got rather a weird and at the same time traumatic addendum to this story. (those of weak constitution may not want to click on the links) I was worried about this happening to my ISD and so took it down from it's perch atop the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| Hi all, I'm a bit late to this discussion, sorry about that. Anyway, I had this same problem. I built a support to fix it, which worked well. I put up a little webpage with a more lengthy description of both my support and the stand that I use. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
| | | Re: Droopy Star Destroyer
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| (...) Kelly and all, It was a good thing I found this thread. I just got my ISD and decided to make a small support for the nose. The support sits about 12 studs forward of the Cargo Bay. Its a very simple build and does detract from the look of the (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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