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Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
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Date: 
Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:35:03 GMT
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David Simmons wrote:

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!).

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.

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

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