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Truss Joint Construction Details
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:27:34 GMT
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Hi All!
I hope I can distract everyone from the Bionicle vs. Technic discussions and
focus on something more constructive for a moment.
I built a little bridge recently:
http://www.texbrick.com/quick_pics/bridge_w1.jpg
(more details will follow later, after I put together a webpage)
I'm not satisfied with the joints, or the point of connection for the members:
http://www.texbrick.com/quick_pics/joint.jpg
I have used a similar method before, as you can see in another close up:
http://www.texbrick.com/creations/bridge_arch/joint.jpg
I'd prefer a different method, one that was less eccentric. Ideally, you
want all the members to lie in the same plane, but this is very difficult to
do with Lego. I haven't put my mind to it yet, but I'm sure there's a better
way of making a truss joint. At the very least, I'm sure you could reduce
the joint "thickness" by half (by using liftarms, or the like).
What do you think?
TJ
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| (...) Amen. (...) I just recently built a Truss bridge as well and pretty much ended up in the same place you did. I don't think using liftarms would help much in my case since all my members were created using 1x2 beams attached to 1xN bricks with (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I think I'm going to stop posting soon, two flame-wars originating from my posts *sigh* Better learn something about action and reaction soon... (...) Cool. (...) Could you use the medium pulley and half beams in any way? Something like this: (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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