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Here is my method of stacking 143 2x4 bricks, 2 2x2 and 21 1x2 in a Pick-A-Brick
cup and still having the lid snap tight. I watched Chris Phillips pack one cup
then took the idea home and used some trial and error to improve my piece
counts.
I just discovered Dave Eaton was refering to my brick stacking in the referenced
thread. I do not read lugnet.general and so missed the original discussion. Yes
I did get 292 black fence in a cup. Last night I was in Burlington and packed
white picket fence for the first time. I have no idea what my take was yet but
it does pack even better than the lattice as the main body is somewhat thinner.
This lets it crack-fill much better.
In lugnet.general, Chris Phillips wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Jeff Reuland wrote:
> > Our biggest concern was to see how many 2x4 blocks we could easily get in each
> > cup.
>
> I posted late last week with my method of packing 137 2x4s with breathing room
> for lots of small parts. Based on reading the packing methods of others, I
> think you can actually fit 4 2x4s into the raised stud on the lid instead of the
> three that I usually do, so you can probably get 138 in there and still snap the
> lid. (Instead of stacking 3 2x4's and lying them sideways, put 2 2x4's on top
> of 2 more and put them studs-up in the lid.) Here's my earlier post, FWIW, part
> of another thread with lots of great packing tips:
>
> http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=43463
Here come real bad ascii art. I have not posted previously as I have been
trying to get some CAD drawing of the cup and discs. The basic dimensions for
those who have no idea what the cup looks like are:
Bot OD: 75mm
Top ID: 101mm
Top OD: 105mm
Inside Len: 149mm
Outside Len: 170mm
Wall Thickness: 2mm
O: (105-75)/2= 15mm
\ / H: 170mm
\ / A: sqrt(170*170-15*15)= 169mm
\ |-BID-| / Angle: atan2(15,169)= 5o
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Bot ID: 75-4= 71mm
Base ID: 15/170*149= 74mm (9.x studs wide)
23 28 32 37 19 4
AAAAbb AAAA AAAAbb AAAA AAAA AAAA
CCCCDDDD BBBBcc CCCCDDDD BBBBCCCC BBBBCCCC BBBB
EEEEFFFF DDDDEEEE EEEEffGGGG DDDDeeFFFF DDDDEEEE22
GGGGHHHH FFFFggHHHH HHHHiiJJJJ GGGGhhIIII FFFFGGGGHHHH
IIIIJJJJ IIIIjjKKKK KKKKllMMMM JJJJkkLLLL IIIIJJJJKKKK
KKKKll LLLLMMMM OOOOPPPP MMMMnnOOOO LLLLMMMMNNNN
mm NNNNoo QQQQRRRR PPPPqqRRRR OOOOPPPP33
PPPP SSSS SSSSTTTT QQQQRRRR
UUUU SSSS
The first 4 disks are 4 studs thick and the fifth is 2 studs thick. Uppercase
letters are placed horizontal while lowercase letters are vertical. The numbers
are 2x2 bricks
The moat at the bottom of the cup holds 21 1x2 if you stack them in pairs. The
amount that the floor is raised is negligible.
^^ ^^ ^^ > ^^ ^^ ^^ > ^^ ^^ ^^ > where ^^ is a 1x2
^^ ^^ ^^ > ^^ ^^ ^^ > ^^ ^^ ^^ >
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