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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 -- "There is no end, no beginning. There is only (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 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)
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(...) I'd love a few as counterweights for my trebuchet. (A trebuchet is a catapult that uses the fall of a massive counterweight (~64x) to launch a much lighter projectile (1x). The weight difference is transformed into momentum for the smaller (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 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)
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(...) Yep, the upgraded version of my crane requires more counterweight than the stack of gray POOP's can provide, so I added a few boat weights. Thanks to Chris Tracey it's much stronger and 2-way motorized (at the Greenburg show it was quite (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I can't wait to see it. RichHave Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (No, I don't work for TLC, but I want to...) Card carrying LUGNET MEMBER: #70 Visit (URL) & (URL) wait is over...) ..."The only thing we have to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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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)
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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)
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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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