The Technic Confessional

[mocbuild101]

43 minutes ago, Paknaloid said:

why buy the exact number of parts you need?  Safer to double every order, just in case  they all get used eventually...

Yes, I do that a bit - mainly to save on postage!

I sometimes double my sets too - when I can get them cheap that is . 

[Paknaloid]

@mocbuild101 I wish I had the money to double up on sets! 42043 and 42054 would be first and second on my list

[grum64]

I leave teeth marks in most everything I build . Keep it to yourself though.

Edited June 14, 2017 by grum64
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[bonox]

don't see anything wrong with that grum. A little context goes a long way 

[mocbuild101]

10 hours ago, Paknaloid said:

I wish I had the money to double up on sets! 42043 and 42054 would be first and second on my list

Well I haven't even got those sets - yet!

[TechnicRCRacer]

I have only committed one "sin"

I usually cut down my ribbed hoses to the right length - and regret my decision later.

[Darkdragon]

58 minutes ago, TechnicRCRacer said:

I have only committed one "sin"

I usually cut down my ribbed hoses to the right length - and regret my decision later.

I heard from a LEGO employee that cutting hoses isn't considered wrong as even in the model shop they do it all the time.

[TechnicRCRacer]

Huh, that's cool! I guess that I consider it a sin because I cannot make the hoses longer again

[grum64]

A recent project needed rollover hoops. Ideally I'd have used pneumatic hoses but as they needed to be chome I couldn't so I had my Uncle make me a pair of steel ones which I had chromed.

[MattL600]

I never use clutch gears...

I am sorry for what I have done 

[Dafgek81]

I have bought 3D printed clamshell buckets for a MOC. I have spraypainted pneumatic cylinders to match a white crane. I,'ve cut a 24t crowngear. Have cut several axles in my time. Glued parts together. Used custom stickers. Have cut multiple diverent parts.

[mocbuild101]

10 hours ago, Dafgek81 said:

I have bought 3D printed clamshell buckets for a MOC. I have spraypainted pneumatic cylinders to match a white crane. I,'ve cut a 24t crowngear. Have cut several axles in my time. Glued parts together. Used custom stickers. Have cut multiple diverent parts.

Out of those, gluing and spray-painting are the worst.

[JGW3000]

My display models are now all scattered in parts all across the LEGO room, which is a good thing, I guess, as my kids can build MOCS, but I can't as I need to be organized.  Consequently my AROCS is still in box not built, to protect it 

[offroadcreations]

3 hours ago, JGW3000 said:

My display models are now all scattered in parts

Same with mine, I take a piece here, and one there, and soon it's destroyed a bit because I'll take something form deep inside a set. I use pieces from them in my MOCs. I have to go and rebuild them once in a while. 

[Didumos69]

3 hours ago, JGW3000 said:

My display models are now all scattered in parts all across the LEGO room, which is a good thing, I guess, as my kids can build MOCS, but I can't as I need to be organized.  Consequently my AROCS is still in box not built, to protect it 

 

28 minutes ago, Offroadcreat1ons said:

Same with mine, I take a piece here, and one there, and soon it's destroyed a bit because I'll take something form deep inside a set. I use pieces from them in my MOCs. I have to go and rebuild them once in a while. 

I have to confess, I steel parts from my kids too. I once removed the small bevel gears from the diff of my son's 42037, because I needed them. Sadly enough he found out the pistons no longer moved and made me fix it right away. 

[Aventador2004]

 

Just now, Didumos69 said:

I have to confess, I steel parts from my kids too. I once removed the small bevel gears from the diff of my son's 42037, because I needed them. Sadly enough he found out the pistons no longer moved and made me fix it right away. 

Ha, gotcha! That happens for me. I wanted a pin with pin hole and 3l with 1l axle from the 42039, so I stole them, but soon I needed more, and it became extra moc parts.

[mocbuild101]

8 hours ago, Offroadcreat1ons said:

Same with mine, I take a piece here, and one there, and soon it's destroyed a bit because I'll take something form deep inside a set. I use pieces from them in my MOCs. I have to go and rebuild them once in a while. 

My sets have all had that same fate... even my favorite sets (that I want to keep built) eventually fall into pieces .     

7 hours ago, Didumos69 said:

he found out the pistons no longer moved and made me fix it right away. 

[ColletArrow]

11 hours ago, Offroadcreat1ons said:

Same with mine, I take a piece here, and one there, and soon it's destroyed a bit because I'll take something form deep inside a set. I use pieces from them in my MOCs. I have to go and rebuild them once in a while. 

Yes, definitely! I recently rebuilt my disintegrating MODed 42006, after several parts had been 'stolen' over the past few months... only stealing from myself though...
As I only have one set of power functions, whenever I want to build a new MOC with the parts, I have to downgrade the previous one to a manually-controllable model. 

[AkiyamaWataru]

12 hours ago, Didumos69 said:

I have to confess, I steel parts from my kids too. I once removed the small bevel gears from the diff of my son's 42037, because I needed them. Sadly enough he found out the pistons no longer moved and made me fix it right away. 

That's a true atrocity. You should never ever take the parts of someone else. And espacially not from your own children.  Thank goodness my son is still in duplo age.

[Void_S]

I see that parts gluing is a one of the worst sins, so let me repent a bit.

1. In a moment of weakness of spirit, I gave up and glued a pair of 1x1 transparent round plates (4073) with 2x2 Boat Studs (2654). TLG used them together several times for LED-ready headligths, but unfortunately this connection is very weak and 2654 always falling apart once the vehicle flips over, so I decided to reinforce the connection.
   
2. Another great sin is painting. I did it as well since faced a crying attrition on 41999 rims    Hopefully 6x6 dishes with some rubber cover are great templates for spray paint. 

Edited June 20, 2017 by Void_S
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[Didumos69]

32 minutes ago, Void_S said:

I see that parts gluing is a one of the worst sins, so let me repent a bit.

1. In a moment of weakness of spirit, I gave up and glued a pair of 1x1 transparent round plates (4073) with 2x2 Boat Studs (2654). TLG used them together several times for LED-ready headligths, but unfortunately this connection is very weak and 2654 always falling apart once the vehicle flips over, so I decided to reinforce the connection.
   
2. Another great sin is painting. I did it as well since faced a crying attrition on 41999 rims    Hopefully 6x6 dishes with some rubber cover are great templates for spray paint. 

These are indeed great sins!

I just recalled I did this to secure a pin properly. I never applied it in any MOC though .

[adam_]

Only thing I can think that I feel guilty about (at present but I'm sure more will come back to me) is purchasing a replacement pneumatic hose from ebay to build some of the older Technic sets I have in box, and it was all for the sake of saving a tiny amount on the price. And with all that effort the pipe i got was much stiffer then the original LEGO piping.

[mocbuild101]

6 minutes ago, adam_ said:

Only thing I can think that I feel guilty about (at present but I'm sure more will come back to me) is purchasing a replacement pneumatic hose from ebay to build some of the older Technic sets I have in box, and it was all for the sake of saving a tiny amount on the price. And with all that effort the pipe i got was much stiffer then the original LEGO piping.

Did you get non-Lego tubing? - because the really old Lego tubing is also very stiff.

And welcome to Eurobricks! 

 

[adam_]

3 minutes ago, mocbuild101 said:

Did you get non-Lego tubing? - because the really old Lego tubing is also very stiff.

And welcome to Eurobricks! 

 

Yes, it was non-lego tubing and it was much stiffer the the old LEGO tubing, it was borderline plastic tubing and not rubber.

[bonox]

food grade silicon hose is the stuff to get.

 

i've got a pile of 2.5L axles and some modded steering parts thanks to RosscoPC's formula 1 cars.