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Re: World Record LEGO Bridge
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
Date: 
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:25:10 GMT
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Jeff Elliott wrote:
I was also wondering about the supports under the bridge deck shown in
this picture:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=11434
It looks like you're holding the deck up with monorail towers.  Is this

These towers were gone once the bridge was in operation: I suspect they
were just holding the deck up at the correct level while Wayne was
attaching the strings.

Kevin
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  Re: World Record LEGO Bridge
 
Kevin A slight correction - Wayne did have some temporary Znap supports that were in place while he was connecting the "cables". The monorail stanchions(sp?) in the picture are just that. You can see the monorail track parallel to Wayne's bridge. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
  Re: World Record LEGO Bridge
 
Kevin, the black supports to the right of my rail ferry were actually standard monorail supports under the monorail line that paralleled the bridge. You are correct, however, in stating that Wayne did use temporary supports (Znap) under his (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)

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  Re: World Record LEGO Bridge
 
(...) <snip> (...) Hi Wayne! Nice bridge... I'd love to see some more detail of how you integrated the ZNAP into the spans - I assume you used it for deck stiffening and for the towers? How did the flexibility and spinginess of the ZNAP imapct the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)

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