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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3353994, member: 27"] [B]How many spirals will it take to finish the Crown Truss? [/B][I][B]ask tomcat[/B][/I] The 4 diagonal walls each have 11 spirals. This includes three arrowheads on each and a single spiral between arrowheads 1 and 2 and 3. That gives us 44 for the 4 diagonal walls. The four directional walls each have 6. There are 3 columns on each of these walls apart from the diagonal walls and each has 2 spirals. That gives us 24 for the directional walls. The total is 68. [B]How many girders will it take to finish the Crown Truss? [I]ask tomcat[/I][/B] If the question here is how many girders does the crown truss hold, the answer without thinking is 36; one for each of the 36 columns. But this is a trick question. Remember the first spiral that went up had only a baby girder that served as the starter to get the girders going? It looked kind of like Thor’s Hammer. The next girder that attached to it was a little undersized as well, such that when put together, they took the space of one normal girder. After that come, I believe, 35 normal sized girders. So the answer is actually 37. If the question is, as of today, how many girders are needed to finish the truss, as of tonight, the southeast diagonal wall is missing one girder. It is one girder behind the southwest diagonal wall, which has all its girders installed (but is still missing two diagonal spirals which will presumably be installed tomorrow morning). They still have to install all 5 girders on the south wall, which still has not had even a spiral installed on it (though the back stays are in place and ready to go). So If Bill is asking how many are left to complete the truss, the answer is 6 girders. If anyone is interested, I think we have 11 spirals to go. I see now Bill asked this question for [USER=245]gocusecaz[/USER]. Perhaps he can verify this...he is our spiral expert. I get 11 as follows: 3 spirals left for the southeast wall (the last arrowhead), 2 left for the southwest and 6 left for the south. [/QUOTE]

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