The glue and the gun
September 21, 2008
For those of you who asked during the meeting what the glue is, I exterted my powers of investigation and visited the website listed on the bottom of the glue packet.
I found the technical data on the gun, and technical data and a materials safety data sheet for the glue.
Bridge Building at the Humbug AGM 2008
September 21, 2008
The President of Humbug 2008 announced we’d be building paddlepop stick bridges after the AGM.
Provided with hot glue guns and paddle popsticks, I think we were supposed to start straight away. Only no one did. Except Clinton. So I decided I’d help.
Team one: Clinton Roy, Me and Murray McAllister.
Team two: James Iseppi, Mark Ellem and Scott Wilson (Greg Black and I think so anyways)
Team three: Russell Stuart.
And “team four” was Gary Curtis.
And so, the pictures….
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- The bridges: from the top – Team 1; Team 2; Team 3.
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- Initial load testing of ~2 kgs water, plus the first appearance of Gary’s laminated bridge.
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- There was no way we could balance a milk bottle on the skinny bridge, so we found some strapping.
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- ~8kgs of water, with no sign of breakage.
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- Again, no sign of breakage, however, a significant amount of balancing required.
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- Easy peasy.
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- We were out of milk bottles. Clinton had assumed that 8 kilos would be enough to break the bridges. He was wrong. Humbug library put to good use.
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- It was not enough. A trolley was added.
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- And with a few books from the library, and 4 kgs of water. Ker-rack!
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- Point of failure.
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- Trolley, books and 4 kgs…
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- It didn’t last
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- Point of failure
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- Trolley, books and 8 kgs
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- Not enough, so we added the Treasurer’s “box of stuff”
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- It’s going…
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- Gone!
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- Point of failure
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- The new and improved laminated bridge
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- With 6 kgs, and it was barely clearing the floor
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- Clinton tried standing on it. It broke the bridge even more. Surprise, surprise.
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- Team 2 also tried standing
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- With little success
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- Since the bottles of water and strap barely cleared the ground, Gary decides to lift the bridge
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- And up…
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- And down…
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- And … snap!
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- Broken…
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- Where dead bridges end up
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- Om Nom Nom Nom
The winner was Team 2.
