Using diabetic medicine cap for legos

I found a neat lego hack by mistake when taking Trulicity.  The cap base was a nice drak stone gray with a shape that looked like what people use to add texture to hangar walls of space creations or landing gear on a model

My lego box was sitting next to me on the floor and that cap fell in to it.  I took a lego and it connected perfectly.

Technic pins and connectors feel snug

But studs fit with mild looseness that might need glued

I had been reading people saying they needed landing gear under the galaxy explorer models that has come out.  I plan to try these when I get my galaxy explorer together.  It's just hard to unbox, carry to table, sit and build.

Examples of landing gear in the old and new galaxy explorer

Above, sources New Elementary and the Brothers brick 

My "grate" adventure

 So, one day about 6 years ago I came across a garage sale.  The stuff was in an old barn

My idea has always been like the block box that separated small pieces...a light diffuser with squares.  I found this flourrecent light diffuser in this barn filthy and no price tag.  

So I was able to clean off the grate later, but when I took it up to buy it the lady yelled at me when I offered 50 cents saying WE'RE HAVING A GARAGE SALE FOR THE  _______CHARITY ASSOCIATION AND THAT'S ALL YOU'RE OFFERING...

I had no way of knowing this as there wasn't any sign ot any marking

So I paid $4 and left, feeling Ashamed 

The grate worked perfect for pouring legos out and sorting the small pieces out!

Then one morning I went to my lego room and the sun reflected on it and the light from colored drawer cabinets made it a piece of art...

So it is functional for sorting and a piece of art!!

My amazing lego hack

 I cannot fix anything.  I am not allowed  to have power tools!!  But by using duct tape and knockoff blocks (maybe I'm a snob but name brand legos are too good for this job), I created the greatest fix

We have a pull out drawer for our kitchen trashcan.  The wastebasket cracked. We looked everywhere for a replacement but every basket was too long/tall.  We found a close size but it was about an inch too tall and the bottom caught on the ledge.

Bottom of wastebasket was too tall to close.

Here was my fix 

Ledge of trashcan was elevated so the bottom cleared the cabinet.

Shear genius...what a once in a lifetime experience!!!

 Saving $$$ on lego tubes-is it a "pipe" dream?

I went to hobby lobby and my local hobby store to see if I could find cheap alternatives to the tubes like in the following pictures...

The above blue tube rail is bent even though it is relatively rigid

I cant afford all the cross beams

The scaffolding above would take a lot of rigid tubing also

1/8 inch will fit the minifigs hand or a clip above but it was tight and could potentially distort the plastic

.075 or .078 could potentially fit in a legomhand or clip...I took Konex track to try matching up..the track is too thick to fit in a clip of lego hand

This 7/32 pipe fit right on the end of this loop piece above and clarified 

3/16th inch tube will go through holes that a lego stud will fit in

The hole in back of the minifigs also fits 3/16 tubing

Buying a longer rod and cut with dremel would be cheaper to buy vs the k and s in the packaging

Well, these were the closest measurements in inches that I could find.  Putting a metal rod down the end of a 1x1 cylinder would definitely wear the lego hole down and any sliver of metal roughed up by the dremel cut would block the ability to place the metal into the plastic hole...

As for the plastic tubing, I'm thinking about going to a thrift store with a minifig and trying different loose phone cords to fit in the hands without distortion of the hands