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Old 08-30-2003, 10:06 PM
Paraphanelia Paraphanelia is offline
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How much would it cost to build a minipipe?

How much do you think it would cost to build a skateboard mini-pipe that is 4ft height 8ft wide and 32 ft long?
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Old 08-30-2003, 10:13 PM
Gairloch Gairloch is offline
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Well, I know that building a maxi-pipe has been known to take hundreds of years and thousands of slaves, so I would make a calculated guess that a mini- pipe might only take dozens of years and hundreds of slaves.

I hope that helped.

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Old 08-30-2003, 10:21 PM
Muffin Muffin is offline
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Draft your plans, itemize you materials, and then take your shopping list to a building supply store.

How you get your slaves, though, is your problem.
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Old 08-30-2003, 10:38 PM
Squink Squink is offline
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Mini ramp plans:

http://www.geocities.com/pukeboy1616...l?993064671760
http://members.tripod.com/~vxtreme/ramps/ramps.html
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Old 08-31-2003, 06:27 AM
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Of course if you had a 1920s style death ray, you would solve your slave labour problem.

Anyone know how much it costs to build a 1920s style death ray?
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Old 08-31-2003, 04:46 PM
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Oops, posted to the "wrong" version of the thread:

I built an 8' long, 4' wide, 4' high launch ramp. Took $200 in material (and 3 weekends). And you're talking about a considerably larger project.
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