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24-02-2004, 14:43
Max Lobovsky
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Re: Aluminum chain?
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Originally Posted by
bstempi
2) Replace all of your steel rods with aluminum rods. Doing this will reduce the wieght of all of the rods by 33%.
I believe it would reduce your weight
to
33% of what it was with steel beams, not reduce
by
33%.
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