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Re: What are boat weight bricks good for?
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Date: 
Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:13:02 GMT
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David Simmons <alienbuz@concentric.net> wrote in message
news:Fq9G3L.42v@lugnet.com...
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!).


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 used the weight to move boxes around.

-John Van



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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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