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(...) That's a neat bridge Brian! With regard to sag, I wouldn't worry - you'd be surprised how much real bridges deflect under load! ROSCO (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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(...) Looks great. As far as the "sagging" goes, use more diagonals in the boxes under the arches. That should help it. (22 years ago, 26-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Building a three-foot bridge
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(...) Hello Brian, The NBLTC has displayed with two such bridges, both made of technic though. The first one is of an arched design and spans 6 straight track lengths. I can vouch for it's strength as my 2 year old daughter tried to walk accross it (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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Thanks, everyone, for showing me some of the bridges you've made. Here are some photos of what I finally came up with: (URL) uses nearly all the black and green Znap that I have. It sags a little when a train's going over it, but I ran the heaviest (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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Brian, Here's my znap bridge I did. It's pretty sturdy, albeit somewhat heavy as well due to the amount of plates I used on the base.. It's a double 6-wide train bridge. The trick that I did was using the 2x2 brick and half stud pieces combined with (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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"Cary Clark" <cary@corp.nospamwebtv.net> wrote in message news:H96p3M.I6q@lugnet.com... (...) run (...) Here are a couple of pictures of the ZNAP bridges Cary built along with one I built. (URL) built the two bridges that cary the trains across the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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(...) Well, Brian, I can say one of my 60 inch long ZNAP bridge twisted and collapse at a train show, with the GFLTC (no pics). Two trains fell 30+ inches to the ground out side in the dirt! The best bet for a ZNAP bridge is to support the track on (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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(...) Well there's Wayne Hussey's bridge which was built out of znap (URL) it's a bit longer than you need, but I imagine it would've been impossible to use if it had a twisting problem. Maybe you could adapt his deck construction technique? Also I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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Here is one photo of my lift bridge that has a 32" span (approximately): (URL) holds up very well, and i assume that you could make it even longer if you needed to. -Rob www.cei.net/~rhendrix/lego.html www.msltc.org "Brian Kendig" (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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(...) ... Brian: I've built some ZNAP and Technic bridges of similar lengths but haven't run into the twisting problem. Any chance you can post a picture of what you have? That would help a lot. Cary (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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| | Building a three-foot bridge
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I want to build a bridge to cross a one-meter gap between two train platforms. The bridge must hold two straight lengths of track, spaced with one trackwidth between them (the distance there would be if you snapped two cross-intersection track (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.znap)
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This all comes from a collection we bought out, where we are mostly interested in the sets, and not the Duplo/Znap/Buckets/B...ic/Creator stuff that was also collected. So we assigned a relatively low "value" to these portions of the collection but (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.znap)
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do the connecters have numbers yet? -grey with technic hole and two pins -purple with znap hole and four pins -black and yellow movable with four pins and the short beam with one hole x (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.znap)
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(...) You should look around Brickshelf.com, someone was working on a monorail system using Znap as the rail. Perhaps you could intergrate the track and the bridge's topmost strut into one Znap thing-bob. Aaron (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.znap)
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(...) Well, truth be told, I just wanted a place to put all the Star Wars figures together, and we were running out of space (no pun intended there) to put figures. The bridge was empty, and I had a handful of Star Wars figures closeby, so I just (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.znap, lugnet.build)
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(...) plates and tiles stacked 3 high, but it's a very tight fit. If you keep thinking of 1 stud wide, 1 studless brick high ways of connecting, there may be some really cool uses for these connectors yet. -Dave (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.znap, lugnet.build)
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(...) I'd suggest it's not necessary for the landing gear to lift the craft - just to hold it up. If it's only operated while there's no weight on the craft, it becomes much easier, you only need some kind of locking mechanism so the motor isn't (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.space, lugnet.znap)
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I've been pondering using one of the Znap motors to power a landing gear mechanism strong enough to at least hold, if not lift a decent sized space craft (including the motor and battery box- if possible) Any ideas? I was thinking worm gear and some (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.space, lugnet.znap)
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(...) Why are there star wars people all over that bridge ? Is that a Jar-Jar signalman I see working for the railroad ? Inquiring minds want to know ;) Ray (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.znap, lugnet.build)
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(...) Actually, that's exactly how those containers were built. I was originally inspired to start making 5 and 7 wide cars since the train heads were always arguing 6 or 8. I said make 'em 7 and stop complaining. Then I went home and tried it. This (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.znap, lugnet.build)
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