Gus Jae (gusjae@rcn.com)
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 23:50:54 -0500
Are you talking about the B Joints made by Wave, or just a ball joint in general?
Believe it or not, there is a difference.
Since you have built MG kits, I will use those as example. Most hip joints on the MG line of kits, if not all, are balljoints. A ball joint consist of 2 parts, a ball on a pin or stick, and a socket that accepts the ball and wraps around it. In the case of MG kits, the Ball and stick part is cast out of regular plastic, while the socket is a PC part.
In the case of Waves B-Joints, There is still 2 parts: the ball on a stick, and a socket with a stick. However, the socket is a little different. It wraps around the ball a bit more, with 2 sides slightly chipped away (lack of a better way to describe) to allow greater moments.
B-joints are usually for people who like to convert their plastic or resin kits to achieve greater mobility. Very popular buggers.
Hope you are now more confused. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Doom4duke@aol.com
To: gundam@aeug.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [gundam] What exactly r ball joints
In a message dated 3/21/01 5:47:45 PM, blazeeagle@charter.net writes:
<<Ball joints are like how most Gundam kits hips attach to the body, a ball on
the body and a socket in the hip. That's why they are called ball joints,
because these joints actually have a ball. Other types of joints can
reproduce the range of ball joints, it would just take more joints to do so.
So, a ball joint is used most often because I would guess, is less complex
then a series of joints. Did this help?
Aaron aka BlazeEagle
"Believing a sign of Zeta"
>>
It helped a little. U confused me a little though.
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