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| | | Well, I'm finally going to bite the bullet and [dons flame proof suit] *cut* some of my axles to make 7u lengths. Has anybody who's actually done this before got any tips? What kind of cutting tool? Craft knife? Stanley knife? Xato razor saw? What (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Thomas Avery
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| | | | | (...) Congratulations! Welcome to the wonderful world of brick modification ;-) (...) What I like to do is assemble 7 Technic bricks side by side and then one solid brick on the end. Connect plates to the top and bottom. Now slide your axle through (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —William Howard
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| | | | | | | Thomas Many thanks 1) for all the good advice and 2) for reminding me that I have a Dremmel-like modelling tool somewhere in the loft! I shall be cutting tonight! (...) If the axles work I also need to make some plates I can pass a wire through (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Mark Riley
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| | | | | | | | | (...) a (...) As a finishing touch, use the Dremel buffing pads to put a nice shine on the end. (Bwahahahahhah - Lego surgery!) Mark (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | | (...) Aaaargh! Before doing that, consider sandwiching wires between 2 of these (URL) done this many times and it works well, without the need for evil mods! ROSCO (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | | | RE: Making 7u axles —William Howard
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| | | | | | | | (...) mods! Ummm? Interesting idea. [FX: Evil cackle fades into the background - light bulb appears over head] thanks Ross regards William (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | | | Wire sandwich (was Re: Making 7u axles) —William Howard
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| | | | | | | | (...) Didn't work :-( But 4 1x1 round plates supporting a 2x2 plate leave enough room to squeeze a wire through :-) William (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Timothy Lynch
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| | | | | | | What you can also do is use a 10U to make a 7U and also a 2U (or use a 12U to make a 7U and 4U), discarding ~ 1U. Once again, it is best to just use what you have most of, especially since 2's and 4's are rather plentiful. "Thomas Avery" (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Thomas Avery
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| | | | | | | (...) Oops. Did anyone catch my math mistake? That should have been a 10u axle, instead of 12u. If you cut a 7u axle from a 10u, then you'll have a small leftover piece that's a little less than 3u long. Geesh, isn't Monday over yet? Oh... it is. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —William Howard
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| | | | | | (...) i am now the proud owner or two 7u axles - and my BobCat looks much better for them (...) Worked well. I made a slight modification by swapping two of the 1x2 with hole bricks for 1x2 with axlehole bricks. That way the axle doesn't turn as (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Geoffrey Hyde
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| | | | | Speaking of the axles does anyone have any idea if LEGO make them with an extrusion mold or if they actually injection-mold each axle out of individual injection molds? If there's one part that's practically designed for extrusion molding techniques (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | It seems they are molded: if you look closely, there is a very thin line along the axle where halves of the mold join. The injection point is at one end. I suspect (but I'm not sure) that actually the mold has 4 parts, two for the axle itself, two (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Øyvind Steinnes
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| | | | "William Howard" <william@howard-fami...rld.co.uk> wrote in message news:NFBBICINOLKHMIO...d.co.uk... (...) *cut* (...) As many other said here, use the axel length you have the most of. And another thing, I never ditch the ~1U axel, or ~3U (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Making 7u axles —Jan-Tore Skålvik
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| | | | For some reasons, I never have enough 5u axles, so maybe a 12u axle are best, the newer type, and a sharp scalpell, cut the axle all the way round, and just snap it off. The ends will be flatt, so the axles are perfect. No sanding reqiured since (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.technic)
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