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Abe-
This was something I wanted to fix before I left the area but never
had the chance. I built the original crowd barriers, *hours* before our
first show so they are a little ad hoc. Here was my plan for fixxing
them.
First get yourself a piece of PVC pipe (1.5(maybe 2 might be better)
inches in diameter), you'll need about 3" for every bucket. Cut the the
pipe into 3" segments. Place in the bottom of the bucket in the
ecenter. Mix up concrete. Pour concrete around the outside of the pvc
pipe so the pipe forms the hole to place the post.
I know this was a quick explanation, if you have any questions just
email me. Gotta go to a meeting.
-chris
Abraham Friedman wrote:
> I know that WAMALUG (now WAMALTC I guess) were using the small tubs as post
> holders for the train show ropes. I wasn't really happy with the look of
> them since the poles never stood up straight. I was thinking about taking
> some buckets and pouring some cement in them to make them stable and was
> trying to figure a way to replace the wood poles with PVC tubes but if I put
> the poles in the cement they won't come out and would be awkward to
> transport. I was looking for a larger tube that I could put in the cement
> and slip the tubes that would hold the rope into but I haven't found any
> that would fit. I was looking into this several months ago but wasn't happy
> with the results. I just thought this might be a cool thing to do for the
> club but I hadn't gotten around to talking to anybody about this yet.
>
> All these small tubs are sitting around and either I need to move them into
> the shed in the backyard until I have more time to deal with them or I'd be
> happy to give them to somebody who could use them. My preference would be
> to give them to somebody to continue with my idea but otherwise I'd be happy
> to give them to a good home if all you wanted to use them for is storage.
> Yeah, I know they aren't as good as the blue tubs for storage, but...
>
> If I hear any good responses I can bring them to the meeting this Saturday.
>
> Abe
>
> > From: "John J. Ladasky Jr." <ladasky@my-deja.com>
> > Organization: None
> > Newsgroups: lugnet.org.us.wamalug,lugnet.loc.us.md
> > Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:34:28 GMT
> > Subject: Anyone have empty blue tubs?
> >
> > Greetings, fellow AFOL,
> >
> > I'm not new to Lugnet, however I am new to the area. I just moved to Towson,
> > Maryland, just north of Baltimore. Is there anyone nearby? Maybe we can meet
> > some time.
> >
> > My four year-old son, Spencer, and I are enjoying a fairly large collection of
> > Lego (estimate 120,000 parts). However, I am still trying to get all of this
> > fun stuff organized. (Spencer, though I love him dearly, is of no help in
> > this
> > matter!)
> >
> > I have a two of blue tubs, and it occurred to me that I could use about six
> > more. A few months ago, I mentioned this to Linsday Braun, just before he
> > left
> > Princeton for Europe, and just AFTER he chucked about twenty empty tubs.
> > Oops. Would any one else have a few unwanted blue tubs kicking around? Let
> > me
> > know, and I'll work out a way to take them off your hands.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > --
> > John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
> > Department of Biology
> > Johns Hopkins University
> > Baltimore, MD 21218
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| I don't have any blue tubs that I want to get rid of but I have a bunch of the small red (4285), large red (4288), and purple (2494) buckets that I want to get rid of. I know that WAMALUG (now WAMALTC I guess) were using the small tubs as post (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.loc.us.md)
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