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8 millimeters or 5/16 inches? (was Re: Scales (Was: New Lego page!)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.faq
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Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:37:34 GMT
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I've been looking for the discussions you alluded to but haven't found any yet.
The FAQ entry for this question is here:
http://www.lugnet.com/faq/?n=376
and it doesn't actually answer the question asked (it gives ratios only, not
actual dimensions). Neither do the message threads it refers to.
In any case, the difference between 8 millimeters and 5/16 inches is about 1
percent, so it should be easy enough to resolve any such debate just by
measuring. For maximum accuracy, you would want to use construct a really long
chain entirely out of 1x16 or 2x16 bricks that overlap by 8 studs each time,
thus averaging the positions of 8 (or 16) studs at a time within each link of
the chain. I'll conduct the experiment when I get home :-)
- Robert Munafo
In lugnet.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
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> The number I came up with is 384 : 1 -- assuming that the length of a 2 x 4
> brick is 1.25 inches (1).
> [...]
> 1. Another, semi-related topic of debate which I have heard many times
> before. :-,
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| Robert Munafo wrote:> (...) The number I came up with is 384 : 1 -- assuming that the length of a 2 x 4 brick is 1.25 inches (1). (...) I was just going by the assumption that a 1 x 1 tile would make a fairly appropriately-sized cockpit blister. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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