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Subject: 
Re: Communications dish for 'Contraption' colony.
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lugnet.org.us.michlug
Date: 
Wed, 30 May 2001 17:18:49 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Scott Sanburn writes:
> Trevor,
> 
> > :^)
> > 
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4706
> > 
> > Whady'all think?  Will it do?
> 
> It looks awesome, Trevor. Excellent job!
> 
> > That big white thing at the back is the counter weight!  (the white sloped
> > bricks and the transiever dome add quite a bit of weight)
> > 
> > I can bring the dish more in line with the ground, but it wants pull bricks
> > apart.  I suppose I could do better if I put more effore into it, but I
> > think this does the job nicely.  And at the angle shown it is very well
> > balanced and the dish doesn't want to roll onto the ground.  I can even
> > rotate the dish to be pointed straight up.
> > 
> > Comments....critisms...
> 
> Will that fit in your trunk? ; )
> 
> It looks really good, ar eyou going to have a staircase going up it or anything?
> 
> Scott S.
> --

I was thinking about that.  It is supposed to be based off the array dishes
you see in Contact and 2010 (same ones in real life).

:^)

But we will have to keep it pointed high since the forward weight of the
dish is a lot due to the bricks.

Trev



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  Re: Communications dish for 'Contraption' colony.
 
Trevor, (...) It looks awesome, Trevor. Excellent job! (...) Will that fit in your trunk? ; ) It looks really good, ar eyou going to have a staircase going up it or anything? Scott S. -- (25 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)

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