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Following close on the heels of the inaugural show of the Central Ohio LEGO
Train Club (COLTC), we had our 2nd display at the Mall on Tuttle Crossing, in
Dublin, Ohio. Set up was on Friday night & the display lasted 2 days.
Now to the picts! We have three galleries to choose from:
John Bucy's:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=53770
Joel Jacobsen's:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=54021
and mine:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=53824
We were warmly received -- the local smoothie stand gave us free drinks for
generating more traffic & helping out with their business. :) Parents &
children of all ages had looks of delight -- some kids were in tears when their
parents tried to drag them away from the display. Overall, it was a great
experience in helping us prepare for Oct.'s Dayton, Ohio GATS!
On behalf of <http://www.coltc.org/ COLTC>
--Mike Huffman
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Despite very large visitor numbers (1000's), this little guy....
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=491274
...was only spotted by less than 10 visitors, who all thought it was hilarious.
So did the brickshelf moderator, since it was approved....
(as I hope is obvious; we meant no offense, just some fun, hope all see it that
way).
As we expanded our layout from last week's Cleveland show by over 40%, I can't
wait for our first "real" show (Dayton GATS, Oct 11 and 12). We sure have the
motivation and some of the bricks to realize our idea's, but time is severely
lacking. But, we'll come up with some more new stuff though, keep wathcing
us....
Paul
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"Michael Huffman" <mhuffman@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:HJv7p8.24nn@lugnet.com...
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>
> We were warmly received -- the local smoothie stand gave us free drinks • for
> generating more traffic & helping out with their business. :) Parents &
> children of all ages had looks of delight -- some kids were in tears when • their
> parents tried to drag them away from the display. Overall, it was a great
> experience in helping us prepare for Oct.'s Dayton, Ohio GATS!
>
> On behalf of <http://www.coltc.org/ COLTC>
>
> --Mike Huffman
Congrats! Doing a GATS show after doing a mall gig will be a piece of cake.
You have already done the hard one! Good luck with GATS.
Mike
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Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com
http://www.ncltc.cc - North Carolina LEGO Train Club
http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=mpw - CTB/Brick Depot
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In lugnet.announce, Michael Huffman wrote:
> Following close on the heels of the inaugural show of the Central Ohio LEGO
> Train Club (COLTC), we had our 2nd display at the Mall on Tuttle Crossing, in
> Dublin, Ohio. Set up was on Friday night & the display lasted 2 days.
>
> Now to the picts! We have three galleries to choose from:
>
> John Bucy's:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=53770
>
> Joel Jacobsen's:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=54021
>
> and mine:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=53824
>
> We were warmly received -- the local smoothie stand gave us free drinks for
> generating more traffic & helping out with their business. :) Parents &
> children of all ages had looks of delight -- some kids were in tears when their
> parents tried to drag them away from the display. Overall, it was a great
> experience in helping us prepare for Oct.'s Dayton, Ohio GATS!
>
> On behalf of <http://www.coltc.org/ COLTC>
>
> --Mike Huffman
There seems to be a wind powered generator, but I don't see any very good shots
of it. Are there more, did I miss it/them?
Is it something else?
Ken
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In lugnet.trains.org, Ken Koleda wrote:
> There seems to be a wind powered generator, but I don't see any very good shots
> of it. Are there more, did I miss it/them?
> Is it something else?
>
> Ken
There were some pics we posted last week, here's a shot:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=486790
It was made by Mike Gallagher, It's performance was dratically improved betwen
the Clevceland show and this one, only a few days later. I'll ask him to get
some more detailed pics on brickshelf, there are only 2 pics of an earlier
version in his folder now.
It ran perfecly, never stopped, never broke, running on only 1 notch of a speed
regulator, at around 10-15 rpm.
Paul
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In lugnet.trains.org, Ken Koleda wrote:
> There seems to be a wind powered generator, but I don't see any very good shots
> of it. Are there more, did I miss it/them?
> Is it something else?
>
> Ken
Mike Gallagher (windmill builder) asked me to post this on his behalf:
I just put up some detailed pictures of the Wind Mill
I had at the Lego's Cleveland Road Show and Tuttle
Mall.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=45454
I made some deconstruction photos to show some of the
detail of how it was made, and how I was able to use
the quarter panels for the main support. Witch I
placed a truss up the middle of. The gearbox worked
great for both shows, just minor wear on 2 of the 4
gears. It should have no problem making it through
Daytonís GATS show later this year. The blades just
slide on the main axle and are only held on by its
weight. I then placed a large radar dish over the end
of the axle for the finial touch. The only difference
at this time from the last 2 shows was I had our COLTC
logo on both sides of the outside of the gearbox and
the American flag shop at home is giving out on the
back.
Happy Lego-ing
Mike
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