February 5, 201213 yr Author Hi, Finally I got some time to work on the truck. This time I have done some work on the cabin, I did borrow some designs from the 8110, after all this is also a Mercedes Benz. I uploaded many pictures if anybody is interested. Cheers jaime
February 25, 201213 yr Author Hi, After many days of inactivity due to work, trips and a sick baby ... I´m back doing some technic . I got many parts from BL so I was able to work on the back of the truck: I needed to built some shelves to store all the rigs and firefighting equipment, and here the result. I uploaded quite a few new picks on Brickself. Also, I was to simulate, the folded fire hoses by using 1x7 Lift arms but i need quite large number of them. Any suggestions on other lego part that may do the job better?. cheers jaime Edited February 25, 201213 yr by K9DOG
February 25, 201213 yr I don't understand what you are trying to do with regards to the folding hose,could you explain it any better?
February 25, 201213 yr Author I don't understand what you are trying to do with regards to the folding hose,could you explain it any better? I´ll try :-) I was going to use lift arms to imitate folded fire hoses for the back of the truck as shown on the picture, but I have to use too many of them, so I was looking for an alternative lego parts that will look like fire hoses.
February 25, 201213 yr You could use Pneumatic hose,you could then add a pf s motor to the reel and then power it.You can buy meters of lego compatible hose from Blokbricks.
February 26, 201213 yr ...I was to simulate the folded fire hoses by using 1x7 Lift arms but I need quite a large number of them. Any suggestions on other Lego parts that may do the job better? I think that stack of 1x7 Technic Liftarms looks fine to simulate a folded fire hose. However, one could use 4081b "Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Light - Type 2 (thick ring)" parts on the ends of 3666 1x6 Plates or 6636 1x6 Tiles sandwiched in between them:
February 28, 201213 yr If you are just trying to imitate the folded hose, perhaps you could use some of these to create a façade: Brick, Modified 1 x 2 Log
February 28, 201213 yr Author SPLAT that´s an idea, I need to check if they have this part at my local lego store. thx DLUDERS thx, I need to check this route also! MANBEARPIG Very ingenous Sr, too bad is not Lego, or lego does have shoe laces thx! You could use Pneumatic hose,you could then add a pf s motor to the reel and then power it.You can buy meters of lego compatible hose from Blokbricks. Pneumatic hose will match the standard 1 inch booster hose usually carried on a reel on the fire pumper, rather than being stored flat. The 5 inch relay hose is the one normally carried folded in the pumper. To use a PF for the reel is a good idea, but I need to take out and rebuild many parts ! Will see, thx Edited February 28, 201213 yr by K9DOG
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