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Subject: 
Re: Wheelchair MOC
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.town, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:30:15 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Elroy Davis wrote:
   I was working on a train station with handicap accessible ramps when I
   realized that I didn’t have any handicapped minifigs.

No peg-legged, hook-handed, eye-patched pirate captains?

   I put together this minifig scale wheelchair to test the ramps.

http://www2.ci-n.com/~esdavis/Wheelchair.html

The chair is a bit bulky, so I’m working on something smaller. This one
   works for now though. The chair is held together by the minifig’s legs, so
playability is lost if you take him out of it (the chair falls in half).

First of all, for the current design, I notice that you have the wheels mounted via a pair of 1x2 Technic bricks with two holes. If you put a #2 pin in the other set of holes, it should be stable when not in use. Second, if you’re trying to go smaller, you might want to switch to using this part:



Not only will it hold the two halves together, but it will also reduce the height of the seat.

That aside, I think it’s a cool little MOC. While the main wheels should probably be smaller in relation to the minifig, the use of rubber bands around the wheels as the hard tires more than excuses the scale difference. Maybe you could design a little “motorized” version for minifigs with cerebral palsy.



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I was working on a train station with handicap accessible ramps when I realized that I didn't have any handicapped minifigs. I put together this minifig scale wheelchair to test the ramps. (URL) chair is a bit bulky, so I'm working on something (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)  

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