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(OLD) Piston Tutorial

so outdated.. but very good nonetheless

your voice is amazing

I have to ask. Is that your real voice? If so, i gotta say. Thats one fucking awesome voice

Thank you so much, this was a great help in learning how to use and make pistons. Thanks!

p.s. your voice is amazing xD

summation.....

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3) I believe your Second Arm formula is incorrect. @ 19:53 in video: As per your directions: The minimum length of the Second Arm = Length of First Arm (5) + 2 = 7

For some reason, you decided to use a Second Arm block length of 13, although – according to your formula – a length of 7 (5 + 2) should have sufficed.

@ 22:28 in video: it is clearly visible that if you had used a block length of anything less than 11 or 12 for the Second Arm, your First Arm would have smashed into your railing.

I tested this myself (using a block length of 7) for the Second Arm, and the First Arm smashed into my railing.

I appreciate your map & video tutorial – they are very clear and well done. My apologies if I somehow missed some crucial step - or if I did something absolutely wrong - but I found the directions so clear and concise that I was quite baffled when things didn’t turn out right. I recommend the Second Arm formula be changed to: Length of First Arm + 4 or 5.

1) At 19:25, you voice-instruct how to build the pistons in the reverse order by which you actually build them. It would have been nice (for those of us with no engineering background) to have a warning, such as: "By the way, I am describing this entire process in the reverse order from how you will actually build it."

2) You named the first arm you described in the video the "Third Arm", the second arm as the "Second Arm", and the last arm (third arm) you showed us how to build you named the "First Arm". Again, this is unnecessarily confusing (at least for us laymen). I can only assume that in the field of Engineering, you are probably 100% correct to call the arms in the order that you did; however, for a How-To video, I believe it would have made things much simpler to just name them in the order you built them; i.e. the "First Arm" would have been the first arm you actually built (which you, instead, named the "Third Arm").

If I had a womb, I'd say have my babies... but I don't, so I'll settle for, "well done, chap. Well done."

very concise guide sir.

Boris sir, I commend you for your genius. This. Is. AWESOME! I wonder if you could, in theory, make a trash compactor like this for all those noob ships that clutter your home base in multiplayer... assuming you use heavy armor so it doesn't crumple itself.