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Re: Aluminum 2x4 bricks
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Fri, 5 Apr 2002 22:27:19 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> Since the design I based the part on is based on 1/16" = 4 LDU...
Bram,
The metric I use is 1 LDU = 1/64". Here's how I derived it.
The classic 2x4 brick is one and a quarter inches long (1.25")
and is 80 LDU long. Thus, 80 LDU = 1.25" = 5/4". Dividing both
sides by 80 gives 1 LDU = 5/320" = 1/64". Hope this helps!
Franklin,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Math Geek
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Aluminum 2x4 bricks
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| (...) Which is my round-about way of saying, "Your figures/calculations look OK to me"... :-/ No idea why it isn't working for you. Sorry... Franklin (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
| | | RE: Aluminum 2x4 bricks
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| (...) Those are the dimensions I did use, Franklin :) However, those dimensions are NOT accurate to .001 inch. And that discrepancy apparently makes a significant difference in the connection properties of the part. --Bram Bram Lambrecht (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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