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| | | Author: | NateWales  | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 11:19 | | Subject: | Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 143 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| So I noticed that some people use some sort of rubber mallet to pound their Lego
plates/bricks down. Does anybody know what the best mallet like that would be
for Lego building?
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 11:48 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, NateWales writes:
| | So I noticed that some people use some sort of rubber mallet to pound their Lego
plates/bricks down. Does anybody know what the best mallet like that would be
for Lego building?
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I use my fingers. Surely hitting them with a mallet will break them.
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 11:57 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, NateWales writes:
| | So I noticed that some people use some sort of rubber mallet to pound their Lego
plates/bricks down. Does anybody know what the best mallet like that would be
for Lego building?
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I use my fingers. Surely hitting them with a mallet will break them.
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They are small mallets, and the people who use them give small hits 
I think it’s also mostly used for glued models… or at least big models in dumb
bricks (statues…) (well, no much use with Technic or complex builds).
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | NateWales | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 13:09 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, NateWales writes:
| | So I noticed that some people use some sort of rubber mallet to pound their Lego
plates/bricks down. Does anybody know what the best mallet like that would be
for Lego building?
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I use my fingers. Surely hitting them with a mallet will break them.
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They are small mallets, and the people who use them give small hits
I think it’s also mostly used for glued models… or at least big models in dumb
bricks (statues…) (well, no much use with Technic or complex builds).
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Ok. I was just wondering because I was going to be building a minifig sized model
of my local library, and it's going to be in a public setting. I don't
want to glue the model because I'm a purist. The model will be in a case,
so hopefully it'll be ok.
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| | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 13:21 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I tried this but something went wrong.
In Help, NateWales writes:
| | So I noticed that some people use some sort of rubber mallet to pound their Lego
plates/bricks down. Does anybody know what the best mallet like that would be
for Lego building?
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 13:30 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I tried this but something went wrong.
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It reminds me of a joke… but I can’t repeat it here.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Macaronis | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 15:02 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I tried this but something went wrong.
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It reminds me of a joke… but I can’t repeat it here.
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HAHAHAH!
+1
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 16:14 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Macaronis writes:
| | In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I tried this but something went wrong.
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It reminds me of a joke… but I can’t repeat it here.
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HAHAHAH!
+1
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Do you know this East German joke?
Because of the Stasi, people couldn’t tell jokes anymore. So instead, they gave
jokes numbers and just said the numbers. And an evening between friends became
like this:
Hans: “Eh, you know 52?”
Everyone laughs.
Deirdre: “That reminds me of 134.”
Everyone laughs.
Karl: “Eh, guys, what about 27?”
Silence.
Karl: “Eh, guys, what’s happening? 27? It’s funny!”
Hans: “Yes, but you’re telling it wrong!”
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| | | | | Author: | eileenkeeney | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2021 20:15 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, NateWales writes:
| | So I noticed that some people use some sort of rubber mallet to pound their Lego
plates/bricks down. Does anybody know what the best mallet like that would be
for Lego building?
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I have found that my 3 pound rubber coated weight makes a good mallet. However,
for getting LEGO pieces to fit tightly, I have found that my feet actually work
better.
Another technique is to use a rolling pin, but as with using my foot, this requires
that the pieces I am trying to fit tightly have a large enough surface area.
Usually when I need to get the pieces to go down into a tight fit, I am dealing
with an area of the structure that has a large flat area. If I am building bottom
up, at each layer, I can use a rolling pin or put a piece of wood over it and
stand on it.
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| | | | | | | Author: | legomalego | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2021 10:45 | | Subject: | Re: Pounding Lego Plates/Bricks Down | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Awesome.
In Help, eileenkeeney writes:
| | In Help, NateWales writes:
| | So I noticed that some people use some sort of rubber mallet to pound their Lego
plates/bricks down. Does anybody know what the best mallet like that would be
for Lego building?
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I have found that my 3 pound rubber coated weight makes a good mallet. However,
for getting LEGO pieces to fit tightly, I have found that my feet actually work
better.
Another technique is to use a rolling pin, but as with using my foot, this requires
that the pieces I am trying to fit tightly have a large enough surface area.
Usually when I need to get the pieces to go down into a tight fit, I am dealing
with an area of the structure that has a large flat area. If I am building bottom
up, at each layer, I can use a rolling pin or put a piece of wood over it and
stand on it.
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