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Subject: 
What are boat weight bricks good for?
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Date: 
Mon, 21 Feb 2000 03:21:41 GMT
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Other than balancing boats that is.  I just picked up three black ones and
one red one and was wondering what people have used them for outside of
their intended purpose (that's half the fun!).

Dave

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"There is no end, no beginning.  There is only the infinite passion of
life."  -Federico Fellini



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  Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
 
(...) Weighing down trains and counterbalancing Technic & System Cranes are the only other uses I can think of. If you don't want them, I'll take 'em. ;) Adding the weight bricks to trains will increase their traction and allow them to pull/push (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
 
(...) I use them inside locomotives, and as counterweights on bridges and on the back of cranes. Those all seem part of a broadly defined "intended purpose" though. (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
 
David Simmons wrote in message ... (...) I used 2 as a counterweight for my construction crane Allan J Smith (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
 
They would make good draw weights for a technic clock. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News David Simmons <alienbuz@concentric.net> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
 
David Simmons <alienbuz@concentric.net> wrote in message news:Fq9G3L.42v@lugnet.com... (...) They hold a magnet, though weakly. This allows you to pick up a box w/ magnet, and then easily let it go. I once built an M:Tron automated warehouse that (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)

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