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Re: 120 degree connector
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:05:37 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Thomas Avery writes:
In lugnet.technic, Rob Stehlik writes:
Hi everyone,
Like the subject says, I am looking for a lego piece that is 120 degrees
exactly.

Hi Rob,

It's going to be hard to connect beams at exactly 120 degrees. There aren't
many pieces that have connections at that angle. I think the 3-arm rotors
will work, as you suggested.

The following link contains two quick ideas that I put together:

http://tanyatj.home.texas.net/tjscreations/quick_pics/

If anyone else has a better idea, or an improvement on what I did, please
post something. This is an interesting problem, and I'd like to see a good,
solid solution.

Couldn't you use an equilateral triangle to construct a 120-degree angle?
Like the top picture that Thomas posted, but either Technic beam extends two
holes past the point where the two beams pivot.  Then a simple 3-hole
1/2-wide connector (sorry, I don't remember the real name of this piece, but
it is flat, oval, and 3 pinholes long) connects the end hole of the
overhanging beam to the third hole in on the other beam.  You could use
longer connectors as well, as long as you extend the overhang to match.

Am I making any sense?



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: 120 degree connector
 
(...) Yep, perfect sense. Try it again: (URL) J. (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
  RE: 120 degree connector
 
(...) Here's another way to construct an equilateral triangle where you attach to the sides (120 degrees apart) (URL) can of course use hinge plates instead. If you attach technic plates, you could then attach technic beam holes to the technic plate (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: 120 degree connector
 
(...) Hi Rob, It's going to be hard to connect beams at exactly 120 degrees. There aren't many pieces that have connections at that angle. I think the 3-arm rotors will work, as you suggested. The following link contains two quick ideas that I put (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)

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