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| (...) Other than bridges for your choo-choo, have you built any large structures incorporating ZNAP pieces? I see there's a message (maybe a thread by now) about using ZNAP for structural frameworks on buildings, but no positive conclusion. I'm (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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| (...) Not yet, just test assemblies. Too much stuff in my basement to work on anythihg serious. (...) I don't know for sure. Preliminary tests are good. Big problem I see is the change in direction challenge. Assuming you're using the ZNAP parts in (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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| I'm building ZNAP choo-choo bridges as well. One is 6 feet long and carries two levels of trains, so I have some feel for how ZNAP would extend to large-scale construction frames. ZNAP is softer than TECHNIC beams; it flexes a lot more, which has (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| (...) Have you ever thought that maybe you need to get a house with a bigger basement? <gdr> In totally non-related news, I noticed in Sunday's GR Press that the Big White Cube at the end of your street has gone up for sale. I was staggered at the (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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| Thanks for the report! I hadn't thought of flexibility as an advantage. Now that you bring it up, it could be really cool, because it's another fact of life in a big city that will become exaggerated in the model. Except that instead of a 100-story (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| (...) I was staggered at the notion that it is a perfect 42 _floor_ cube. Let's see, that's 176,400 square feet per floor, times 42 floors, equals almost 7,500,000 square feet of living space. Not bad for $800K. -Adam 8^D (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I DID! Or at least that was the start of this whole exercise, I went basement shopping and happened to find a nice one with a nice house attached too. (...) I knew it was going up for sale but not how much, what WAS the price (the more, the (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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| (...) :) I think they meant "foot", although that seems a bit small, horizontally. But the house does look to be about 42 feet tall. It's a very weird thing to drive past. A big white cube, parked in the middle of a square clearing in the woods. (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| After a few observation sessions at the 383 Madison Av building site (that's in New York where my company is building anew) I have decided to try just a cubic lattice. No triangular beam thingies, and I don't yet know what a Znap "panel" is that (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| (...) How about the yellow and black "swivel connector"? It's a yellow 1-beam, with knobs at each end, and two black rings wrapped around the middle, with a knob on each ring. The rings can rotate independently, positioning the two knobs anywhere (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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