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Yet another PAB 2X4 Record: 169 2x4s!
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:34:33 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Chris Phillips wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
...I could fit 163 2x4s in the cup,
again assuming that the lid doesn’t need to snap on:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Chrispy/PickABrick/1pab163.jpg
This method is a bit more tightly packed, and you do have to press down
slightly to get the bottom disc into the cup. If you omit the top and
bottom brick from that disc you eliminate that problem. The top (largest)
disc is also a bit tight, but still fits.
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Well I would like to congratulate you for taking this challenge. This after
all is for the benefit of everyone. I would like to still keep record by
saying you can add 2 additional bricks to the second row to make it look
like the first row diamond shape. So the record is 165!
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I know this thread died months ago, but we got a store in the Seattle area a few
weeks ago and I finally got to try it out. And, of course, this subject is
always of interest.
I got 169 2x4 bricks into a cup today, using a slightly
modified version of the pattern mentioned. And the best part: old grey!
There wasn’t much room to spare, though- I only managed to add 18 1x2 technic
bricks around the bottom and 6 1x4x2 fences squeezed into perimeter crannies.
And those fences were pretty well crammed in.
Note that you have to rotate
the bottom two levels 90 degrees from each other so that they warp the cup in
the same direction. But this pattern doesn’t seem to warp the cup any more than
the previous pattern.
Also, you can get more studs’ worth of bricks if you
use other geometries. Using 2x4, 2x2, 1x2, and 1x4 bricks, I got the stud-count
equivalent of 182.5 2x4 bricks into a cup a couple of weeks ago. I probably
could have gotten another 2 or so in if they had 1x1 bricks. The pattern was
studs up, so obviously totally different from this. Unfortunately, I didn’t
document it.
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: A new P.A.B. 2X4 Record -- 163 2x4s!
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| (...) Well I would like to congratulate you for taking this challenge. This after all is for the benefit of everyone. I would like to still keep record by saying you can add 2 additional bricks to the second row to make it look like the first row (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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