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General Category => Brag Forum => Topic started by: Marcellarius on September 14, 2012, 01:56:28 pm

Title: Egg drop box
Post by: Marcellarius on September 14, 2012, 01:56:28 pm

last week my daughter came home for a school project.
she had to make an egg drop box. she had a limited choice of materials, wood, wool, sugar, water and paper.
she already had some wood and tried to cut it with a hand saw......
so I squared it all on the table saw and gave her some directions.
she made the whole box herself, drilled holes for the nails and screws.
she filled the box with sawdust (egg in the middle) and screwed the top on.

the box was dropped from 20 feet!!!
the third time one of the sides came loose, but the egg was still in one piece!
great project,

the picture is from the box before she dropped it.

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Post by: Russ C on September 14, 2012, 03:17:32 pm

Great idea for using sawdust. She will always remember those times you both spend together. You have to be a very proud Dad.  :)

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Post by: newfie on September 14, 2012, 03:41:35 pm

thats cool dropped it 3 time's and didn't break the egg thats awesome

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Post by: DWSudekum on September 14, 2012, 03:55:21 pm

Excellent Parent / child time.  This is something she will long remember.  Thanks for sharing this with us.


DW

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Post by: frankorona on September 15, 2012, 08:57:49 am

A very interesting project, well done.

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Post by: Al W on September 15, 2012, 09:02:38 am

Great project, good learning experience, and memories for a lifetime.

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Post by: Marcellarius on September 15, 2012, 10:04:21 am

egg drop "the movie"  (http://aanons.home.xs4all.nl/eggdrop/index.html)

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Post by: dgman on September 15, 2012, 11:21:16 am

Congratulations Marcel! What a successful venture!

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Post by: troy_curtis on September 16, 2012, 02:23:36 am

Sweet. Love seeing someone learn from such a thing. I was a teacher for 8 years. I remember seeing our 8th graders out dropping eggs from the 2nd floor landing at the school. None of our kids had such a nice box. Thanks for showing us the project you worked on.

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Post by: daliclimbs on September 16, 2012, 12:40:26 pm

Nice! Pretty well designed piece to hold up to three drops from that height!