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I don’t think we have a techniques thread yet. Something useful. NPUs (new part usage), etc.
dat airtank usage!!!
I see the airtanks and the ring – nice tricks! What is going on at the top of the book shelf though?
I recommend checking the Unitron pool in general as many builds have interesting designs, but one of my favorites is doors used as wings!
Dan – did you read the multiple “love the color choices” comments on that little guy? Proof that Unitron rules, but also proof that not every person commenting on LEGO posts on flickr understands that the color pallette was predetermined…
I don’t know if this counts as a ‘technique’ necessarily, but I don’t know where else to post it, it seems better here than the ‘ideas’ thread.
Specifically, I am posting this pic for the lime/medium azure/blue path made of 1×6 plates. The motivation for this is that at the Trolley Museum in June, I was part of a conversation with Laura and David where one of them (don’t remember) said they have a huge supply of 1×4 plates and they were trying to think of something good to use them all up. So I thought of that as soon as I saw this pic.
Ben, that was me. I was playing around with brick bending with the LUG bulk. Interesting thing is that the colors they used are the same colors I was playing with, and I made the exact same thing. I didn’t like the gaps, it seemed messy. Of course the angle makes the difference. The LUG has about 5,000 1×4 plates in blue, light blue, and lime green.
I was less interested in the bending part and more in the color combination and the striped path made from plates, so even if you just made a straight path that way or used it for something different, like a wall or a slide or something, it would be cool.
OMG those cracks. Amazing. I need to do this.
@hannah133 here is another idea that might work (photo below)
Tom can you elaborate how this would work? I’m not home right now to build a mock up. Right now, I’m thinking of creating a mix between a geneva drive and a linear reciprocal mechanism. Basically the linear arm would engage the Geneva drive so the Ferris wheel would go around a whole loop before it started doing the stop/go.
how this would work
The black axle is your input. The grey axle is output. The 8 tooth gears mounted on the wedge belt wheels creates a sector gear. So when the input rotates, while the portion with the 8 toothers meshes with the 24 tooth gear, the output rotates. When the input gets to the voids, the output pauses. It sounds like you have a good plan though.
but man, that’s sweet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive
Hopefully this is the right thread to ask these questions but has anyone figured out a way to fix/save old lego stickers? I’ve recently dug out a few of my old sets from storage and many of the stickers are cracking away in pieces. Is there any possibility of saving?
Additionally, anyone have any experience with removing sharpie from bricks/minifig parts? I recently picked up a tub of used lego and some kid took a sharpie to almost every minifig torso and it hurts to look at them lol I’m not sure if there’s anything to use that’ll take the sharpie off but not the print…
I don’t know of anything for the stickers. rubbing alcohol or even gel hand sanitizer has worked for me with sharpie and such. used a q-tip or cotton swab.
If the stickers are cracking, you are probably not going to save them. What about coating them with something clear?
The honorable solution to replacing your stickers is probably not cheap and the cheap solution is probably not honorable. 🙂
The honorable solution to replacing your stickers is probably not cheap and the cheap solution is probably not honorable.
Greg sets ’em up, so I can knock ’em down:
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