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Re: Anyone seen/bought a PAB Tub?
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Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:40:34 GMT
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Here's my experience with a PAB tub at the Bellevue, WA store:
Time to pack: 2.75 hours. This included chatting with Neil, Gordon, Soren, and
Jon Tatman (because it's not a real visit to the Bellevue store if you don't run
into Jon there. . .).
My tub was not completely full. The opaque lid made it hard for me to figure
out what else I could fit in. Also, I completely forgot to fill in the handles.
Tub (with bulging center):
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tgarriso/Misc/PABTub/1.jpg
Layers:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tgarriso/Misc/PABTub/3.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tgarriso/Misc/PABTub/4.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tgarriso/Misc/PABTub/5.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tgarriso/Misc/PABTub/6.jpg
Contents:
(I should note that the Bellevue store currently has very little in Tan or Gray
brick (only 1x4 MdStone Brick), although there are many DkTan, OldGray, and
MdStone plates. I was looking at measuring the capacity of the tub in bricks so
I went primarily with Green bricks.)
31 DkGreen Brick 1 x 6
42 Green Brick 4 x 6
54 Green Plate 4 x 4
155 Green Brick 2 x 2 Round
956 Green Brick 2 x 2
64 White Slope 33 3 x 3
189 OldGray Slope 33 3 x 4
12 DkRed Brick 2 x 3
144 MdStone Brick 1 x 4
393 Green Brick 2 x 4
115 Green Brick 1 x 4
and a little less than a large cup worth of 1x4 Green tile, 1x2 DkStone tile,
and 1x1 TrYellow round plates.
Now, the interesting part: I bought lots of slopes. I also bought a stack of
32 1x4s that I used to fill out the slope section of the tub. If I take out the
slopes and the 32 1x4s, by my measurements that should be leave 31x18x4
stud^2-bricks worth of brick space. I will also assume that my 2x2 rounds,
which were all on one level and hence avoided the "orange stacking" effect, were
equivalent to 2x2 squares. Adding it all together, a tub has a capacity of
approximately 11,994 stud^2-bricks. If I count all the plates and tiles as
free, this results in a shelf price of about $0.00834/stud^2-brick, or (after
the drunken sailors in Olympia get their pound of flesh) $0.00916/stud^2-brick.
TWS Garrison
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| Both of you spent almost three hours filling your green tubs. Then, to be able to actually use the pieces you carefully packed, you had to disassemble them all once you got them home. Being cost effective means considering not just the money, but (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jun-07, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Anyone seen/baught a PAB Tub?
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| (...) - snip - (...) Yesterday I bought a green PAB tub from the Portland store, and having seen this thread, decided to do a pseudo-scientific process of it. So I kept track of how long it took to pack and then tested to see the volume, count, (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jun-07, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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