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Engineering Specs?
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lugnet.build
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Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:19:08 GMT
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I was talking to a co-worker, an engineer, and he asked me about engineering
specs on Lego. I've looked around a little bit but haven't found anything.
See he wants to build bridges and such to see what kind of load he can put
on it. So anyway, does any one know these things? Things like how much
foot/pounds of shearing action do you have to apply to a friction pin before
it fractures. Does anyone do torture testing of Lego to see what it's made
of, so to speak?
Mark
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) why not try it and find out? Since you don't use just one pin in a bridge, it rapidly becomes more complicated than a single number. You might want to test a 1x16 technic beam first, they shear pretty easily (like if you step on the bridge (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) ACK! It'd be interesting to find out I guess, but lego ain't cheap, especially things like technic beams which are rare these days! I dunno, I think I'd stick to toothpics/popsicle sticks/whatever to actualy TEST bridge designs... ---SteveR (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.build)
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