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Cutting Lego, any Lego ...
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 7 May 2002 14:34:52 GMT
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... is not acceptable in my book. I don't specially like corrugated tubes,
but that doesn't mean I can cut them up (I'd rather just not use thwm). Why
would be cutting some pieces OK and cutting others (i.e. axles) not OK?
I'm generally a pretty tolerant person, but when it comes to Lego, there are
2 caegories: 100%-as-it-came-out-of-the-box and all the rest.
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Message has 6 Replies:
 | | Re: Cutting Lego, any Lego ...
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| Ahmen! Can I hear a Purist oh "H*ll Ya!" (I gotta say, Jenifer's stuff is really great, She has included non-Lego parts custom made by John Barnes in her MOCs. I hear they work Jim-Dandy. It's just not for me or other Purists.) Legomaster (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Cutting Lego, any Lego ...
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| (...) Certain pieces, like pneumatic tubing, almost require cutting in order to use them. In fact, a lot of Lego produced sets come with long lengths of tubing and instruct the builder to cut them to length. How about the stiff "flex" tubing (the (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Cutting Lego, any Lego ...
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| (...) I've slid a bit, I guess. I still don't like cutting of elements (although maybe if it was done by someone else that had a computer controlled milling machine!) but I now fully support (as in, I use them in my production custom sets): - custom (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Cutting Lego, any Lego ...
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| "miguel agullo" <technicpuppy@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GvqwI4.Kor@lugnet.com... (...) Why (...) I think TJ said it all with respect to cutting pneumatic tubing; there are simply some parts where being cut to length is by definition part of (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Cutting Lego, any Lego ...
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| There are times when a part must be cut to length. The only offence here is pretending that you did not. This drives others insane when they try to reproduce your MOC. Admit it and document it. -- Bob Fay THE SHOP (URL) agullo" (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Cutting Lego, any Lego ...
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| I just thought I would share an interesting experience I had that is related to this subject... In October at our local Toronto area Lego robotics competition, someone brought in a wall climbing robot that had been built by an official Lego designer (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: MoTeC rule question.
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| "Eric Sophie" <mylegomaster@cs.com> wrote in message news:GvqJos.Eu5@lugnet.com... (...) Easy - just use a bit of corrugated tube of the right length as a washer. I'm assuming that cutting flex and corrugated tubes is acceptable ;-) Jennifer (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.technic)
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