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Umpteen
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom1570 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-08 21:50:31
November 08 2013 14:55 GMT
#1
The most-chewed Lego pieces in my collection are these:

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and the reason they are so often chewed are these pieces:

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or ones like them, because this:

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is a tight fit for the end of this:

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and this:

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doesn't afford any way to push this:

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out again, and the other end of this:

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is bloody hard to grip unless you use these:

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At the age of 39, once again faced with the prospect of trying to extract one of these:

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from the end of this:

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in front of my daughter:

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I solved the problem. Simply push the free end of this:

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into one of these:

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and then insert the safe end of one of these:

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into the end of this:

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which prevents the clip from pulling loose from this:

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and then pull this:

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off, which will make you feel like this:

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You're welcome.

*****
The existence of a food chain is inescapable if we evolved unsupervised, and inexcusable otherwise.
kerpal
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United Kingdom2695 Posts
November 08 2013 15:07 GMT
#2
this is pure genius.
Oukka
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Finland1683 Posts
November 08 2013 15:35 GMT
#3
Man I wish we had "Nobel Plz" smiley available.
I play children's card games and watch a lot of dota, CS and HS
NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa7387 Posts
November 08 2013 15:53 GMT
#4
Amazing.
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
November 08 2013 16:31 GMT
#5
Are those K'nex pieces? maybe not :o

Still genius though~
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
solidbebe
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Netherlands4921 Posts
November 08 2013 16:32 GMT
#6
You can actually use another one of the same piece and push it out from the other side, that's what I always did.
That's the 2nd time in a week I've seen someone sig a quote from this GD and I have never witnessed a sig quote happen in my TL history ever before. -Najda
Rollin
Profile Joined March 2011
Australia1552 Posts
November 08 2013 16:47 GMT
#7
On November 09 2013 00:35 Oukka wrote:
Man I wish we had "Nobel Plz" smiley available.

You mean like this?

[image loading]
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Umpteen
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom1570 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-08 17:01:11
November 08 2013 16:58 GMT
#8
On November 09 2013 01:32 solidbebe wrote:
You can actually use another one of the same piece and push it out from the other side, that's what I always did.


That's true if you push the peg into the SIDE of the T-joint. You can indeed use a black rod or similar to push it out again. But if you push the peg into the BOTTOM of the joint, there is no 'other side' to push it back out from.
The existence of a food chain is inescapable if we evolved unsupervised, and inexcusable otherwise.
Oukka
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Finland1683 Posts
November 08 2013 17:00 GMT
#9
On November 09 2013 01:47 Rollin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2013 00:35 Oukka wrote:
Man I wish we had "Nobel Plz" smiley available.

You mean like this?

[image loading]


Yes! :DDDD
I play children's card games and watch a lot of dota, CS and HS
13th Marine
Profile Joined January 2011
United States344 Posts
November 08 2013 17:07 GMT
#10
Problem solving at its finest. Using your teeth to pull those pieces out gets old pretty fast...
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
November 08 2013 18:32 GMT
#11
mind = blown
solidbebe
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Netherlands4921 Posts
November 08 2013 19:03 GMT
#12
On November 09 2013 01:58 Umpteen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2013 01:32 solidbebe wrote:
You can actually use another one of the same piece and push it out from the other side, that's what I always did.


That's true if you push the peg into the SIDE of the T-joint. You can indeed use a black rod or similar to push it out again. But if you push the peg into the BOTTOM of the joint, there is no 'other side' to push it back out from.

Oh right, I hadn't thought of that.
That's the 2nd time in a week I've seen someone sig a quote from this GD and I have never witnessed a sig quote happen in my TL history ever before. -Najda
spinesheath
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany8679 Posts
November 08 2013 20:23 GMT
#13
I'm pretty sure there are some long cylindrical lego pieces of about the same diameter as a matchstick which you can use to do the same thing.
I'm think I learned that from some lego construction plan more than a decade ago.
If you have a good reason to disagree with the above, please tell me. Thank you.
Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
November 09 2013 03:58 GMT
#14
Not gonna lie. Thought you were going somewhere sexual with this.
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
yokohama
Profile Joined February 2005
United States1116 Posts
November 10 2013 02:58 GMT
#15
I always tell my friends that teamliquid.net has all the answers you could ever need for anything, and this blog strengthens my point.
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