10-28-2007, 07:32 PM
Well, the models are more useful for looking at how things work than actually copying. They sell a paperback book that comes as close to blueprints as I've seen anywhere. It's under 20 bucks IIRC.
Few will give exact specifications, at least around here, because if you build something exactly (or sort of exactly) to someone else's plan, and something goes wrong and a person is injured, they can sue you for giving them faulty paid-for advice. So most will direct you at some point to math formulae, or lists of types of lumber instead of giving a specific set of criteria.
You can't just scale up the model, of course, to make a larger version. Too many factors are not straight line expansions.
Few will give exact specifications, at least around here, because if you build something exactly (or sort of exactly) to someone else's plan, and something goes wrong and a person is injured, they can sue you for giving them faulty paid-for advice. So most will direct you at some point to math formulae, or lists of types of lumber instead of giving a specific set of criteria.
You can't just scale up the model, of course, to make a larger version. Too many factors are not straight line expansions.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
