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In lugnet.mediawatch, Santosh Bhat writes:
> During my first year of Civil Engineering, we had a project of building a
> model bridge using paddlepop sticks (Australian term), i'm not sure what
> they're called around the world, but their the wooden sticks you get with
> ice creams bought in packets.
In the US we commonly call them Popsicle sticks, but that's actually a case
of trademark dilution, as Popsicle is a trademark for a brand of "paddle
pops". I think there is a generic name but I forget what it is. Note that
these sticks are narrower than tongue depressors which you also can get for
use in projects...
> Although I see merits in using Technic beams and joints as real life
> construction models, the problem with these are that they don't represent
> true life strenght of materials for weight etc.. Well unless you can afford
> to build life size items with ABS plastic ;)
Are you saying that real materials are stronger per unit of mass or weaker??
I sort of would have expected steel to be stronger!
++Lar
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| (...) Paddle Pop is also a particular Brand as Jonathan has pointed out. I'm not really sure what a generic term would be? I know other guys have had to build bridges using balsa wood. The spaghetti usage must only happen at a lower primary school (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic)
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| During my first year of Civil Engineering, we had a project of building a model bridge using paddlepop sticks (Australian term), i'm not sure what they're called around the world, but their the wooden sticks you get with ice creams bought in (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic)
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