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Re: Loose joints
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Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:33:50 GMT
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> Most noticable is the figures with large weapons (like swords and axes).
> They are no longer able to hold the weapon in the air on their own without
> some manual tightening of the parts. They tend to just fall to the ground
> due to gravity. I miss that "right out the can" tightness I used to have.
Mine never had this "right out of the can" tightness. In fact, in order to
get the arms with large weapons to stay in any position other than hanging
straight down, I would have to do some tweaking of some of the parts
involved with the gear mechanism and stuff in order to induce enough
friction to make them stick. But, this is exactly what I expect. Technic
parts are precision made so that moving parts move freely with as little
friction as possible. The only way I could get my Toa arms to gain some
friction was to tighten and slightly move parts in order to bind these
free-moving mechanisms. The ball joints are supposed to have a lot of
friction, and mine still do, but I have to create friction in the gear
mechanisms for the arm movements myself. So, yes, this is normal for
technic products. If your Toa arms were sticking when you first constructed
them, it was probably because you had induced some friction by slightly
misaligning or overtightening some peices in the gear mechanism. If you
want this effect again, just tweak the parts a little to regain this
friction. It already sounds like you figured this out, but yes, in my
opinion, this is normal.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I guess this makes them more like "real" action figures then... how my GI Joe's did you have laying around the house with floppy arms and legs :) Thanks for the reply. (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| The 24-tooth gears on the Toa have this neat feature: one side has 4 or 8 little bumps that stick out slightly. If you put the gear on the back of the Toa with the bumps facing the body, they will cause it to stick a bit (like a click hinge), and (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| There has been much conversation about the "deception" in LEGO advertising regarding the joints and matching the pictures on the packaging. While we seem to be all "joint happy", how well are the joints on your Bionicles holding up? I've noticed (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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