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Re: How much does a weight brick weigh?
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 6 Jul 2007 06:45:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Martin Srb wrote:
> This reply may be useless for you since you got the weight brick, but it can
> be useful for those who don't have any:
> Brick 2x4 is not the ideal part for adding weight because it's hollow. Plates
> have definitely more ABS per volume unit. 24 plates 1x1 have the same
> dimensions as 1 brick 2x4, but they weigh more than double weight of it
> (according to Bricklink). Nevertheless, the amount of plates 1x1 needed to
> counterweight the weight brick would still occupy about 4x more volume than
> the weight brick.
Oh, I had no intention of using 2x4 bricks to add counterbalancing weight
(unless, of course, they were magnet bricks). They just happened to be handy
for a weight estimate, but using them permanently would have caused some of the
same clearance problems that were originally solved by cantilevering much of the
weight off one side...which is why I needed the weight bricks in the first
place. So basically that would have just been a costly way to put myself back
where I started.
Anyways, if I'd needed a touch more weight than what these two weight bricks
provided, I had intended to start adding plates, but I have to admit that I'd
kind of been thinking in terms of 2x4 plates, not 1x1 plates, which I can see
would clearly be heavier (well, as much as you can get with relatively
lightweight ABS plastic).
The important thing right now is that I got two weight bricks, they did the
trick, and I don't currently see a need to keep adding mass (though this may
prove wrong by the end of the month).
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| (...) This reply may be useless for you since you got the weight brick, but it can be useful for those who don't have any: Brick 2x4 is not the ideal part for adding weight because it's hollow. Plates have definitely more ABS per volume unit. 24 (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jul-07, to lugnet.trains)
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