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Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
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Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:14:31 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons writes:
> 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!).

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 more cars.  :)

Jeff
"You can't be a hero hiding underneath your bed"
http://members.xoom.com/aulddragon/



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  Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)

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  What are boat weight bricks good for?
 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)

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