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- January 13th, 2009, 6:04 pm
- Forum: 2009 Build Events
- Topic: Elevated Bridge B/C
- Replies: 1754
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Re: Elevated Bridge 2009
Absolutely!!! I used 1/16th balsa for lateral bracing... No problem what so ever... It always broke because a very FACTORED member broke because the glue joint did not hold.... I am also starting to use smaller and smaller pieces of balsa as I get more experience with the materials... And I have con...
- January 13th, 2009, 5:15 pm
- Forum: 2009 Build Events
- Topic: Elevated Bridge B/C
- Replies: 1754
- Views: 342750
Re: Elevated Bridge 2009
Holy smokes!!!! 4.... Wow.... Well it was worth trying 
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Mine only got 454 over the competition.... And it failed it the most critical part... Had I re-enforced that with some gusset... or used it as a lap joint it would have done better...
...Mine only got 454 over the competition.... And it failed it the most critical part... Had I re-enforced that with some gusset... or used it as a lap joint it would have done better...
- January 8th, 2009, 9:27 pm
- Forum: 2009 Build Events
- Topic: Elevated Bridge B/C
- Replies: 1754
- Views: 342750
Re: Elevated Bridge 2009
Okay 
And I shall be testing another bridge on the 10... Will take pictures... Hopefully. And see final results.
And I shall be testing another bridge on the 10... Will take pictures... Hopefully. And see final results.- January 8th, 2009, 2:46 pm
- Forum: 2009 Build Events
- Topic: Elevated Bridge B/C
- Replies: 1754
- Views: 342750
Re: Elevated Bridge 2009
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Just tested my bridge not so long ago at after school practice. Weighed 13.52 and scored an effifcency of 399!!!! almost 400 ALMOST!!! ONE MORE!!! but anyways... I thought that was pretty good!! I should have tooken pictures. But didn't have a ca...
- January 7th, 2009, 5:08 pm
- Forum: 2009 Build Events
- Topic: Elevated Bridge B/C
- Replies: 1754
- Views: 342750
Re: Elevated Bridge 2009
Hrm.... I've think we've discussed everything we possiblly could about elevated bridge 
.. It seems... now what do we talk about 
.. It seems... now what do we talk about - January 6th, 2009, 6:38 pm
- Forum: Posting Games
- Topic: The 5,000 Post Thread
- Replies: 5003
- Views: 393413
Re: The 5,000 Post Thread
1216???
- January 6th, 2009, 6:27 pm
- Forum: 2009 Lab Events
- Topic: Compute This
- Replies: 317
- Views: 77724
Re: Compute This
Hrm... that's tough... I give up... I tried looking on USGS.gov.... Now to Google iteyeball138 wrote: No magic. Not difficult. Try this one. How many volcanoes per square mile are there in Hawaii?
I couldn't find it!!!! NOT ON GOOGLE.. OMG!!!...That or I didn't look hard enough...- January 6th, 2009, 6:02 pm
- Forum: 2009 Lab Events
- Topic: Environmental Chem
- Replies: 555
- Views: 106329
Re: Environmental Chem
For most of you guys that are worried that you don't have sufficient information. I suggest Googleing all the stuff along with Wiking it. For Div B... Most of the stuff I looked up was. Nutrients for certain plants (e.g. lettuce, corn, tomatoes, potatoes), How to measure NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, P...
- January 6th, 2009, 5:52 pm
- Forum: 2009 Build Events
- Topic: Elevated Bridge B/C
- Replies: 1754
- Views: 342750
Re: Elevated Bridge 2009
Yeah... Reading all 34 pages would be a pain... But reading all them will surely help us and you... as you might find most of the stuff more useful information than expected... I was new to this post when there were about 24 pages.... But reading them helped a ton. And I'm sure reading that extra 10...
- January 6th, 2009, 2:41 pm
- Forum: 2009 Build Events
- Topic: Elevated Bridge B/C
- Replies: 1754
- Views: 342750
Re: Elevated Bridge 2009
turns out... its only 2 cms wide... LOL... I never checked... Not good... Should I take it apart and reglue it so it is 5 cms??? I think it has a chance of falling over.... But if it doesn't then it will surely fail in torsion... I'll get a picture up on here as soon as i can. :) Oh yeah :) 500 post...