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Re: Yet Another Technic Creation
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Tue, 8 May 2001 18:34:37 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Jennifer Clark writes:

That sounds like a good competition - who can make the strongest compactor? I
suppose you'd have to impose a reasonable time limit otherwise some vastly
geared down solution that moves one centimetre per hour would win. I suspect,
however, that one would quickly find the weakness of the lego elements to be
the limiting factor.

Well of course all the info you need to supply are, the dimension's of the
face of the compactor, and the maximum lenght of travel, or more simply the
size of the volume you want squashing and the specification for the material
to squash, whoever compacts it the most, wins. I think a limit on motors and
overall dimensions to be a clever way of imposing limits on the size and
power of the entries. :-)

Steve



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