Subject:
|
Re: How much does a weight brick weigh?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Thu, 5 Jul 2007 21:33:53 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
4962 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains, David Laswell wrote:
> Q: How much would a weight brick weigh, if a weight brick could weigh weight?
>
> A: Pretty much half of what I needed. I got two weight bricks today, and while
> they may not be the exact perfect amount of counterbalancing, they are
> sufficient for the task, and the project I was working on is now nicely
> balanced.
>
> Interestingly enough, they don't seem to be filled with lead as I'd originally
> suspected (environmentally friendly?). I held one up against one of those
> little round LEGO magnets, and it sticks, so it's either iron or steel inside.
This reply may be useless for you since you got the weight brick, but it can be
useful for those who don't have any:
Brick 2x4 is not the ideal part for adding weight because it's hollow. Plates
have definitely more ABS per volume unit. 24 plates 1x1 have the same dimensions
as 1 brick 2x4, but they weigh more than double weight of it (according to
Bricklink). Nevertheless, the amount of plates 1x1 needed to counterweight the
weight brick would still occupy about 4x more volume than the weight brick.
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: How much does a weight brick weigh?
|
| (...) I tend strongly towards the "purist" end of the spectrum, but when my son really wanted to make a LEGO trebuchet I couldn't bear to dedicate my weight bricks to a project that I feared would never be disassembled (it still hasn't). Instead we (...) (17 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: How much does a weight brick weigh?
|
| (...) Oh, I had no intention of using 2x4 bricks to add counterbalancing weight (unless, of course, they were magnet bricks). They just happened to be handy for a weight estimate, but using them permanently would have caused some of the same (...) (17 years ago, 6-Jul-07, to lugnet.trains)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: How much does a weight brick weigh?
|
| Q: How much would a weight brick weigh, if a weight brick could weigh weight? A: Pretty much half of what I needed. I got two weight bricks today, and while they may not be the exact perfect amount of counterbalancing, they are sufficient for the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jul-07, to lugnet.trains)
|
8 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
