9/16/2023 0 Comments Mos eisley cantina lego 2020![]() ![]() The thing to remember is that mold changes are expensive unless they take place when a mold has reached the end of its service life and is about to be scrapped. Right now the MOC I used that on is on our LUG's layout at The Henry Ford Museum, but the next time I go in I'll have to remember to verify which version I got. It's also not super loose, so it's probably not from the first gen design. The part it attaches to is the 1x4 tile with two fingers sticking straight up, and that should have popped loose every time I lifted the roof. I recently purchased one of the car roof pieces shown in the second comparison photo, and according to Bricklink, I did buy the old 9-tooth design, but now I'm not so sure that's the one I got. Closing it from either extreme pushes the part laterally, where the stud connections are strongest. The tooth that matches this plane is the one that's most likely to be a problem, because lifting the hinged part from this position is basically the same movement you'd use to pry a plate off of another part. For plates, it's easy to identify because it's the same plane as the plate. And when you're at the extreme range of movement, I've found that there's less problem with closing the hinged element than there was with opening it. Once you get it moving, there's less resistance to further movement, hence why they didn't just get rid of half of the teeth. For something like a car roof, this allows you to pry the roof up with half as much resistance. By removing two teeth, it gives you one position that actually is two teeth locking onto one tooth, and two positions where two teeth lock onto two teeth in one direction, or just one tooth in the other. It's not two teeth locking onto a single tooth, but two teeth locking into three teeth. The problem lies in the design of the click hinge. I don't know how many times I've tried to actuate a click hinge and had the part it was attached to pop loose. The problem was, the hinges fit so tightly that it was hard to get them started. The second generation was a lot tighter, and there was minimal movement without advancing to the next tooth. They had a lot of slop in them, such that you could wiggle the part around quite a bit without advancing to the next tooth. The first were really loose, to the point that the first Jedi Starfighter I got that used them for landing gear would barely support its own weight. There have actually been two previous generations of click hinges. Physics will tell you the likely reason why they reduced the fingers. With that out of the way, here are three builds inspired by the sort-of-new dome. ![]() Hinge Cylinder 1 x 3 Locking with 1 Finger and 2 Fingers on Ends, 7 Teeth, with Hole ( 54662).Hinge Cylinder 1 x 2 Locking with 2 Fingers, 7 Teeth and Axle Hole on Ends without Slots ( 57360) Hinge Brick 1 x 6 Locking with 1 Finger Vertical End and 2 Fingers Vertical End, 7 Teeth ( 53914). ![]() Hinge Brick 1 x 4 Locking with 1 Finger Vertical End and 2 Fingers Vertical End, 7 Teeth ( 54661)
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