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RE: Maze building
At 02:49 PM 6/13/00 +1000, you wrote:
>To summarise: Three lengths of wall. "Shorts" are the length of a peg-maze
>wall, "Mediums" are a wall plus a peg - i.e. 18cm less 1mm tolerance.
>"Longs" are a wall plus two virtual pegs, i.e. 19.2 cm. Walls are held in
>place by pins sticking downwards near the ends which slot into 3mm holes in
>the plain base.
>
Do you have the short walls locating into the virtual pegs or do they
require pins into the floor?
presumably, if they were to locate into the floor, you would need a cluster
of four holes in the floor about each peg position. There would be no hole
at the actual peg position.
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While I think I like the variable length wall, it makes for more
complicated manufacture and, perhaps, more drilling of locating holes.
If, on the other hand, the short walls locate into slots in the long walls,
then there seems no real advantage in terms of accuracy or reliability in
having variable wall lengths. I guess it would be a bit easier to build the
actual maze in this case though.
Pete Harrison
IT Services Manager
Cannock Chase Technical College
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