Need help with a dentist office moc

[SweetiePie88]

Working on a dentist office moc and i've run into a problem. First a backstory for the project. You see, i've had a rather rough dental journey where the status is i have partials i almost never wear and i'm kind of traumatized by the whole thing. I am trying to make a moc that i can kind of role play with to get myself calmed down so i can go in for a cleaning at some point. Trust me, i'd rather go back to being a dental phob but the problem is if i lose any more teeth, i probably won't be able to get away with not wearing partials as little as i do now. If you want the full story up to the latest rant i made yesterday on the journal, drop me a PM and i'll give you the link.

So i decided to do a office moc. I'll be modding another project i had started on(recreating the old friends vet set) for the building, i found a chair i got from a lego grab bag a while back which will be the chair plus i even made a second one, and i think i have the light problem solved. Got a few ideas for the 360 xray machine also. Even better is thanks to the mostly complete ninjago board game i got from ebay last month for a whopping 8 bucks and change, i have extra 16X16 plates to make the thing a little larger if I wish.

I would rather have a swiveling tray like what you see in offices where they have the tools lined up when they are doing whatever they are doing for that appt then just a little table near the chair. Something like what you see with the images from the dental chair search results. While I could very well do something like this(:seen in the bottom left panel) http://www.reasonabl...comic/03202008/ , i'd rather go for something more realistic.

i tried googling lego dentist chair and i'm not really finding something i can use. I tried working out a technic idea in LDD but was way to bulky. And ive tried working out 2 other ideas in LDD and it doesn't look right. 3rd set up, which is currently in use in the LDD model, is kind of like a stand with 2 rows of clips with the top row being a half stud offset.

While I probably will be able to pull off what I need to some extent with mixel hinges plus thick and thin lift arms, half pins, and clips; I want to see if anyone has any ideas since i'd rather have something that's just a tiny bit more compact.

[dr_spock]

How about some droid arms? Do you need the tray to swing in and out? Or do you need the full range of motion like the real thing?

[SweetiePie88]

Full range if possible.

[no7erics]

Are you looking for a chair or a tray? Like a tray for holding the various utensils the dentist will use during that visit?

I tried making one but it might be a little chunky... I'll put up a couple pics in a minute.

Edited April 4, 2015 by no7erics

[no7erics]

Here's a tray idea I had... I guess I got a little caught up building it.. Hope it helps. I've got a sorta "initial ideas" save as well where I have all kinds of parts lined up to help give me ideas (ie: various parts that have open stud-holes, a few SNOT parts and some clips, hinges, etc.) from before I got this idea.

^ example pic

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Sorry if the pics are gigantic -_- Also, it's not super compact... Maybe with a little fiddling it could be shrunk a little bit. There's a few pieces that could make for a decent sorta "tray", and actually quite a few other pieces for achieving that "telescoping" or whatever you'd call it technique (like this old timey clip piece).

I hope this helps! I meant to put a Minifig screwdriver on the tray, but maybe that would've been a little grotesque :x

[SweetiePie88]

That's a really cool idea i'll have to look into. I could make the tray smaller with only on 2x2 inverted tile instead of 2. Maybe I could use the tray with mixel hinges I have instead of having to do a BL order since i dont have the 90 degree finger hinges.

[Hudson19]

I think you should contact to an experienced dentist. Only he can solve your problem. I recommend you to consult my family dentist Hermosa Beach. He will definitely provide you best solution.

[SweetiePie88]

I made progress with the tray. I did 2 of the 1X2/2x2 regular brackets, then 2 of the 1x2/1x2 bricks under that, then an inverted tile under that and flipped it over. I then raided the container of kreo parts and took and used a round 2x2 tile with snap, a 1x2 plate with socket, and some of the ball and socket snap parts and made a rotating arm. Took the same parts and combined it with a 1x2 trans yellow tile and created a light for the chair.

[SweetiePie88]

think you should contact to an experienced dentist. Only he can solve your problem. I recommend you to consult my family dentist Hermosa Beach. He will definitely provide you best solution

If you mean for the tray i'm building, i'm done with that part. If you mean from the dental phobia pov, i'm slowly making progress on my own. Seems like part of the problem is that my body is automatically associating the office with a place that i will be poked, prodded, yanked, drilled, etc even when thats not the case! i was there 2 days ago for a lower partial adjustment and when i was in the chair waiting for the dentist to come in to do the adjustment, it felt like my heart was about to beat out my chest. it was an adjustment that only took a few minutes since it was only the front fake tooth causing issues.

[SweetiePie88]

I made a little more progress. I removed the kreo part of the tray and replaced it with a post of round bricks with a couple sizes of bars for support and then made an arm from "Technic, Liftarm 1 x 3 Thin" with 3L bars and the thick spacer bits to make it swivel. I then put a 1x2/1x2 bracket and one of those 1x2 plates with the little bar part that comes up on the tray. I slid the bar part into the end of the lift arm and used a thin spacer to hold it in place. It's still not quite what the outcome i was hoping for for the project but that looks a lot closer to a real chair.