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Re: New angled beam
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:08:46 GMT
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"Huw Millington" <hmillington@cix.co.uk> writes:

I have to say that I didn't notice that! I am at work at the moment, but
I'll double check the lengths tonight. I can say  that at that length they
are not 90 deg., though.

No, I would guess they are 135°.  (I said 45° in my original post, but I
really meant 135°, sorry.)

The old part 6629 (nine holes) has a pretty odd angle, 143.13°.

There are (off the top of my head) 5 or 6 hole 1-bend pieces with 90 deg
bends in it,  that have appeared in other Technic sets this year, first in
the 3 'connectable' sets that came out in January.

Yep, it's the 32140 "five hole one bend" beam, with this basic shape:

       o
+ o o o

I have already drawn it in LDraw:

    http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/ldraw/32140.gif

Fredrik



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  Re: New angled beam
 
(...) If that angle is there to allow for some fit to a grid of holes, I'd guess the new beam has the same angle. In the US S@H catalog, alt. model pictures show that the new beam, too, has 9 holes, albeit 2+corner+6 rather than 3+corner+5. I've (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: New angled beam
 
(...) That's not the one that was meant in R2-D2, if i'm right. That one's not 45 degrees. Eric (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: New angled beam
 
(...) I'm always interrested in Technic LDraw parts, including (especially?!?!) the unofficial ones! Amos "Junior" Bieler Spambot shield at 98.6%, Captain. (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)

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