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I wonder if you could make a simple mechanism to split apart the easier parts...
by kolinko 10y ago
I wonder if you could make a simple mechanism to split apart the easier parts...
- jacquesm 10y agoI suspect that's a harder problem than anything I've done so far.
- monk_e_boy 10y agoDoes it make your finger hurt splitting the parts? Mine ache after about 10 minutes of playing with lego
- jacquesm 10y agoI have a whole bag of tricks for that.
- EGreg 10y agoCare to share? :)
- jacquesm 10y agoLego makes two 'removal' tools, those are handy, then, I have a very sharp naked 4" blade that will take care of the hardest cases, baseplates will flex the tiniest bit and that will usually give you enough space to flip the top part off. Finally, a regular plate pushed at a 45 degree angle into the space between two other plates will separate the two without damage to any of the parts if you do it 'just so'. Adapt as needed :)
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoYou need a brick separator! At least two, if possible. http://www.bricksabillion.com/tools/the-brick-separator/ http://www.bricksabillion.com/tools/the-brick-separator/
- itbeho 10y agoPerhaps subject them to a near vacuum state? Pressure differential of trapped air in pieces might pop them apart.
- moron4hire 10y agoFrom experience, Lego are nowhere near water-tight, say nothing about air-tight. The air between the pieces will leak out before you can build a high enough vacuum to pop them apart. I suspect this is by design: air-tight connections probably create enough of an internal vacuum that doesn't come apart with hand-force.
- robotresearcher 10y agoIf the push-in joints were air-tight they would be harder to put together as you would be pressurizing the air in each connection. Then the internal pressure would be working against the friction fit to pop them apart again.
- mattkrause 10y agoReally? I made a mould out of Lego (to make Lego-shaped gummy candies) and with a thin coating of vaseline on the outside, it was indeed water-tight (and silicone-goop-tight too).
- moron4hire 10y agoVaseline would count as a liquid gasket, in this case. It's really going to completely change the conditions.
- mattkrause 10y agoI think there were there were beads of water on the outside of the mould, but it was much closer to water-tight than I had imagined, even without the vaseline. They're astonishingly well made for a children's toy.