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If anyone has access to a laboratory quality balance (scale), could you determine how much the smallest LEGO part weighs? Probably a "Control Lever" (URL) as the smallest / lightest part... Unless anyone has a different candidate?? Thanks, -Jon (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) How about: "Flower part" (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Dunno if you'd count it as a piece, but the minifig gold chrome coins are REALLY lightweight... How 'bout heaviest piece? I'll wager the newish 32x48 raised baseplates? Or an RCX w/ batteries... DaveE (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) control center? :) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ah yes... that'd work... (never owned one myself) Thought of another one-- how about some of the BASIC building tables? (never owned these either) although the tables are quite a bit of a stretch... DaveE (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) heh, if you're going to go that route, wouldn't the new primo turtle be pretty heavy? and i think he's got a primo stud on him somewhere - making him a brick instead of just a container, but i'm not sure. (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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Hey all. The lightest lego part (of the candidates mentioned) is: a gold coin = 0.05602 g This measure was performed on a Mettler AE240 analytical balance. I didn't correct for fingerprints or dust so these measures might be a little off, but most (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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Very cool. I've often thought that the small plume that attaches to a knight's helmet might be the lightest element. Any chance you could weigh one of those? - Cary "Christopher Tracey" <ctracey@enviroweb.org> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, there are a couple other pretty small parts that might contest (Although my guess is still the coin): - small knight's plume - small knight's side plume (dragon wing r/l) - minifig hand - minifig 'hook' hand - white rubber band - (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have all these parts except (maybe) the side plume. I'll weigh them next time I know no one is going to be in the lab. I'm also interested in seeing the relationship between brick size and mass (i.e. is it a linear relationship?). -chris ps. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) If you had the weights of all the elements, it would be useful to someplace like Brickbay, where it could be used to automatically calculate shipping charges based on weight. (not that i'm suggesting that you weigh out all the pieces or (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm... what would it take? Assume that ABS plastic's volume relates directly to its weight-- and then all you need to do is calculate volume using Ldraw parts. So weigh something like a 2x10, a 2x4, a 1x1, and a few odds and ends... then check (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) An interesting thought... variables would be opaque vs translucent ABS (TLC appears to use different molds, so there may be differences in thickness), parts per baggie, etc. Also, raw volumetric calculations might give a hint to what size box (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) How about the plastic banners used in the Ninja sets. Do those count as Lego Parts ? They should be pretty light. Ray (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) How about Milimy's wings? They are feather light. james (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd rather see it work the other way around, but I can't figure out how it'd work. :) -JDF (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) "Let's see, you have 477 pounds of lego. Why that breaks down to 38 blacktron figs, 18 palm trees, 4,728 blue 2x4 bricks..." that would be extremely cool, but I suspect the technology doesn't quite exist yet. hehe. Adrian -- (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Reminds me of the AT&T (?) commercial from a few years back where you drive your grocery cart through a scanner that calculates the total price. So, maybe if each element had an embedded microchip... TLC would make a mint selling hand scanners (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) I wonder if different colors have different weights? If you could weigh the standard bricks (1x1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 2x2,3,4) Then compare, say, 2x4's of different colors, it would add to our knowledge base... Then Steve Bliss could add that to the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hm, looking at the picture I get to wondering. These numbers are pretty ridiculously small to even more ridiculously small precision. Would it not be more "correct" to measure more than one at the time and divide, perhaps then adding in an (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) What about stickers??? ROSCO (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) it was also pretty ridiculous that we care about the lego in such a geeky way. :) (...) yes. it would also be good to only use new parts and remove them from their bag with forceps... = lots of work. this would make a god article for the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) you're welcome! (...) hmmm.... all i can say is the brick and the technic beam were yellow. :) (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) I've got another potential - the tiny foam dot which is punched out of a Scala foam sheet to make a hole to fit over the Scala foam fasteners. The dot is just 1 or 2 mm diameter. They show pictures of different color dots being put into foam (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Heh. :) (...) 3 should get you down into milligrams, which I suspect _ought_ to be sufficient for any purpose legomaniacs could have. It's not like we're trying to figure out the right number of 1x1 tiles needed to react with five pounds of (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) [snip] (...) that thing past it's cal due date?? :] Those neuro-toxin whatever measurements might be off... KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm not so sure that would be helpful..., well, at least not in many cases. I ship MISB sets out of BrickBay, and I have never once paid for shipping charges based on weight---it's always gone by volume. LEGO packaging has just too much air in (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) Are there any published data on Lego weights? I remembered this thread, but this was the *only* info I could find. Even the RTL FAQ, which goes into excruciating detail on the dimensions of a 2x4 brick, can't be bothered to say how much one (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd be willing to weigh another round of common pieces (e.g bricks, plates and maybe minifigs). time is the limiting factor. -c (22 years ago, 15-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Weight of more than 600 elements for download
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Hi All, In the last months I began to weigh parts when adding to my collection. I used a 0.1 gramms scale weighing as much elements as I found (at least 20) and divided. Results are about 1/100 gramm but I do not promise the last digit to be (...) (22 years ago, 7-Sep-02, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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