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Re: ZNAP as framework (was ZNAP at GR TRU!)
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Date: 
Tue, 16 May 2000 16:29:00 GMT
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Thanks for the report!

I hadn't thought of flexibility as an advantage. Now that you bring it up, it
could be really cool, because it's another fact of life in a big city that will
become exaggerated in the model. Except that instead of a 100-story office
tower making occupants nauseous in a windstorm, it'll be true of my 7-story
apartment building. I own a top floor apartment in one of those (all the better
to survey my neighboring buildings) and it doesn't sway at all.

Actually, the floor panels inside will probably brace the frame against any
swaying...



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  ZNAP as framework (was ZNAP at GR TRU!)
 
I'm building ZNAP choo-choo bridges as well. One is 6 feet long and carries two levels of trains, so I have some feel for how ZNAP would extend to large-scale construction frames. ZNAP is softer than TECHNIC beams; it flexes a lot more, which has (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.znap)

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