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Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:52:47 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > 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!).
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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.
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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.
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> Thanks to Chris Tracey it's much stronger and 2-way motorized
> (at the Greenburg show it was quite unstable and not motorized).
> I hope to have the third motion motorized for the GATS show next
> weekend.
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> KL
I can't wait to see it.
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