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| (...) I just emailed you a GIF instructions sheet, but to your mindspring account... should I email it to your work account? (...) Nope :) It's what I like to call an IES* There is no actual piece that holds the tile at 90 degrees... it's the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Mindspring is just fine (I can access it from work). (...) Ah, now I see. I may use that for a few containers which open. That solution won't work for the Selbulba tile though since the thin walls aren't split in color, and it doesn't manage (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| (...) As the automatic doors on the Starship Heart of Gold would say, "Glad to be of service!" :) --Karim (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| Karim wrote in message ... (...) account... (...) holds (...) pieces (...) Well, I just (well several hours ago) tried this out. The geometry doesn't quite work out. To fill in those who haven't seen the picture, the key is that staggered, opposing (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Oooh, Drat! I forgot about the "lego" logos extruded on the tops of the studs... Oh well, just goes to show the dangers of designing lego models in your head... :) BTW, I just tried it myself, and it does work... almost... the deflection of (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| (...) It's more than just the letters, the actual stud is ever so slightly taller. When I gently slid a plate into a chanel made by reversing two thin walls, the top of the stud caught the edge of the wall. The two stud wide channel with 3 plates + (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Hmmm, we may be running into the limit of lego tolerances here. When I tried the assembly, it was clearly just the letters on top of the studs that kept it from working perfectly. In fact, it does actually hold together, and works just as I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| You could always "accidentally" stick a MegaBlock plate back there. It would be obscured from view and I don't think they have markings on the studs, but maybe they do. (I don't use MB, so I wouldn't know). I know Tyco had blank studs, but their (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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