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    Re: Which weighs more? —Eric Harshbarger
    Nope, My scale shows: 1x16 regular brick: 6 grams 1x16 Technic beam: 5 grams Eric Harshbarger (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Which weighs more? —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) Amazing!(1) And quite counterintuitive, if you ask me. Volume and surface are not always tightly correlated but the Technic beam has lots more surface area. 1 - I'm assuming you actually weighed 50 of each and did the math or whatever. I have (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Which weighs more? —Allan Bedford
     (...) You can actually use nothing but LEGO bricks to answer the original question. Since the question was "Which weighs more?" I went on the assumption that he didn't care "how much does each beam weigh?" but rather which one is heavier as compared (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Which weighs more? —David Simmons
     Thanks Eric! :-) Dave "Eric Harshbarger" <eric@ericharshbarger.org> wrote in message news:HB7Es3.6z7@lugnet.com... (...) holes (...) to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Which weighs more? —Ross Crawford
   (...) Hmmm interesting. My conclusion from that would be that the "cylinder" containing the holes is significantly thinner than the brick walls. ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Which weighs more? —Manfred Moolhuysen
   (...) Look a little bit harder. Note that the bottom studs, in a normal brick extending all the way up, are interupted by the pegholes in a technic brick. I estimate that the surface to subtract for the two holes in the brick wall and the surface to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
 

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