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Heavy Duty Forklift Features: - raise and lower forks by 20 studs with knob - tilt mast with knob - steering with knob as well as steering wheel, with Ackermann correction - 3 cylinder fake engine driving front wheels, located behind the cab - opening engine hatch and rear compartment - forks manually slide sideways to suit varying loads

I have been tidying up the Studio file to make it match the physical model, and probably make instructions, and I thought it would be a fun exercise to do one of these linkage-only renders. Red - mast height. Yellow - steering. Blue - Mast tilt. Purple - fake engine driven by front wheels. One oddity now exposed is the 14T gear under the steering wheel. It turned out the way I built the cab floor means there's only a 1 plate gap and regular 12T bevels won't fit. This doesn't work very well if you try to use the steering wheel directly, axle tends to pull out of the 14T gear and it's difficult to put back. But it's a bit late to work on the design, and with gentle play it holds up ok.

Maybe one of those pick-a-brick blank space modulars would be a better way to sell an inverse corner set. Make it half alleyway, half green space or something.

I found a formerly spring-loaded cannon that didn't fare so well, lawnmower carved one of the bars off of it and put a big dent in the side so it doesn't work. It still looks like a cannon though so it was good enough for me.

In other magazine news, seems to be confirmed that the heavy-lift helicopter has Bright Green as its accent colour (using parts that are otherwise unique to the Kawasaki Ninja)

Windshield parts are usually the best (most printed Star Wars ones are in 1-3 sets, unprinted a little more common) but difficult to look up the parts. Generally I do it by figuring out length x width (eg. '10 x 4', '6 x 4') and searching for that. Though ones with bars or clicky clips might be listed at a different size so I'll also try +-1 length if I don't see it. With less rare parts where you have say 50 possible sets, knowing the general colour theme helps a lot. E.g. if it's a grey piece, but you know the set's got a lot of blue and black in it. You can scan sets for that. Another option that's more effort is put all the parts you can identify on a Rebrickable part list and then use their Build button to search for sets that match that list. I've only had wrong sets be better matches in the Minecraft theme, cause it sticks to a very limited set of pieces, and sometimes small sets have every piece present in a larger set, so the small set will look like a better match. It lets you input quantities, which can help narrow it down if you think the set has a whole bunch of 2x2 slopes or something. Mostly I'll take the first option (rare single pieces) if I'm shopping bulk lots and trying to get a better estimate of what's in them. Or of course helping out other people online from photos. Once I buy bulk Lego, I want to have it on a part list anyway so I maintain my (~25k) loose parts in Rebrickable lists, and from there it's convenient to see what sets are nearly complete.

As far as I know the clips are centered at the midpoint of the stud, and the "base" of the antistud inside the binoculars is right at the edge of the bar. So in millimetres that should be 4mm-1.6mm = 2.4mm. Plates are 3.2mm so it's 3/4 of a plate thick gap. Brackets are 1/2 plate so they should fit in that space (not tightly, but maybe enough of the stud engaged). If the stud hole's not actually a full stud deep, it would be less than that 2.4mm. Without knowing the exact aesthetic you want, maybe you could switch from using 2 clips to a clip and a bracket. And have the binoculars on the right instead of the left.

Discord is discouraging hotlinking, anything hosted by them is a temporary link now, they didn't especially announce the change (maybe it's in patch notes?)

More pictures in the Bricksafe album. It can lift the cargo container from 42078, ish. When it's lower, it's not got enough weight to counterbalance it, but at full height the weight is in a more reasonable spot. To take photos outside, it's required to pay the pet tax. She pretty much immediately walked between me and the subject.

I was keeping this problem in mind while building something else, and here's another interesting one: 3937 hinge part is a quarter plate shorter than 3 plates. So it can fill in the half-stud (1.25 plate) gap. I didn't focus on the row of tiles underneath, of course the 1x2 jumper exists without a groove. If you had 2 studs depth, the 2x2 with 2 studs would also work.

When is the Entry post open for submissions?

The axle inside the antistud of a brick is loose with no play, you could also use a 3-long pin but I think that's illegal cause it stresses the pin.

If you use a technic 1x1 brick instead of system, you can put a plate half-offset above it instead of needing the jumper. Though now I'm looking closer I guess that's a 1x1 with studs on opposite sides.

I can only narrow it down to 'during my dark ages', every set I own has the reinforced one, but 42098 (2019) is the oldest set I have that contains the part.

It's the vertical offset, you go down 1.5 studs and back 5 so the total length between ball joints is 5.22 studs. Usually with solid axle designs it's allowed for on the springs by letting them rotate front to back as well as side to side.

I can't see exactly where the bogie pivots, but you can do something like this: (red parts for chassis, yellow for parts that turn with the bogie, and then a black 2x2 turntable plate) Tan 20t gear is directly on the bogie's rotation axis, so it can drive gears that move with the bogie, while having a motor on the chassis drive it. 2 studs apart as shown uses 20-12 gears, 3 could use 28-20 or 36-12 (but 36t gear is more than 4 studs wide), 4 could use 12-20-12 etc.

Is this clearer? Half bush in the middle with just the tip of the driving ring on either side of it. If it's an actual half-bush then it only slides 1/4 stud either way so it might need to be a bit thinner.

Let's say "done for now" because an order I placed 3 weeks ago for a 1x5 thin purple beam and some 1x7 hasn't arrived yet, but everything else has. https://bricksafe.com/pages/Stereog/heavy-duty-forklift for several more pictures in the current state. The Purple 32009 double bent beams inspired the colour scheme and shaping; I got a Technic Competition set on sale in 1999 and haven't used them in any MOCs yet. Unfortunately the colour only ever got used in around 10 sets and the part selection is small, with most of them being rare. So white and yellow manage the more complicated shaping. Hoping for a sunny day to get some clear photos for the actual submission post. Despite using a Technic figure chair, there's unfortunately not enough headroom or legroom to put one inside. Features: - raising and lowering mast by 20 studs, using gear knobs on either side near the back tires. - tilting mast forward and back, using gear knob at the front left tires. - manually slide the forks side to side for working with different loads. - steering with Hand of God from above the engine cover, that also moves the steering wheel in the cabin. Uses ackermann geometry and reaches near 60 degrees on the inside wheel, for good turning radius. - 3 cylinder fake piston engine behind the cabin. - engine hatch to maintain the engine, and rear hatch for storage, fuel, or adding extra weights.

Just a sketch in Blender cause I'm not set up to model custom parts at accurate dimensions, but maybe you could eliminate the "1L technic connector shape" piece and mount it directly on the axle with a 30-40% width (loose) axle bushing. Gives the whole part a smaller radius that fits entirely inside the clutch gears. Then to keep the gears apart, put a spacer on the exterior, either opposite the toggle selector, or built into the wave selector's design. (edited to add) Or, make it a C-shaped ring that slides over the selector and the opening in the C is where the selector has access. It seems (at least on dk. bluish grey 16t gears) like there's about 1mm of leeway before the clutch gear has internal teeth, so I'd plan for the flange to fit into that space.

I have nostalgia for the horse and dragon from the 1990s, zero interest in anything modern, it just doesn't look like Lego to me. Though the smallest brick-built animal I can think of, that I actually like, is the shark in the Creator Pirate Ship. Smaller than that, like various birds, it's neat that they try but it isn't selling it for me. I also think it's neat that the dragon shared subparts with the crocodile at the time.

Yeah, if you put them in both ends, it's a problem. Though I think putting a bar 3/4 of the way into one usually has enough friction to pull it out of a pinhole.

From what I can see there are 4 types that'd be easy to tell apart, plus some smaller variants that are hard to tell apart. 4459 - 1980s - no middle slots 2780 - 1990s - middle slots, can't fit a bar 2780 - 2000-2020 - middle slots, can fit a bar 61332 - 2020-now - no middle slots, has a flat spot so they don't roll away. The middle slots are always at 90 degrees to the end slots that I've seen.

I'd be interested in ideas to store wheels & tires, I keep them in a few buckets by size (wheels that go on bars in the smallest category, then solid tires that use axles in the middle, then balloon Technic tires in the largest), and it makes it hard to find the ones I want. Since I generally have 4-6 of each style that go together in sets, it would take a lot of compartments to keep them by exact type. And they're relatively large parts.

https://rebrickable.com/parts/38648pat0001/ Magnifying Glass is also around 1.5 studs for the transparent part.

I think the main argument for 4 is that it spaces the doors a multiple of 4 apart, so the platform can be a fairly symmetrical build. If the doors drop from 20 to 19 or 18 studs apart, then the track ties aren't centered on each door, so the slopes attaching the platform to the tracks would move around. Which in turn gets in the way of the platform extending to meet the doors for wheelchair access. Though if they built 18 stud long cars with 2 stud gaps, same would hold true...