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Deeplinks:
Full Gallery, post-mod:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=130401
Well, it’s been 5 months, and in the end, I got tired of trying to make a
gearbox for this thing. The more I tried, the more frustruated I became, and as
many over here have said, “If you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it.”
So I let
go off the gearbox idea for now-- Maybe when my skillz are more like teh ~ROSCO,
I’ll give it another shot. Till then, enjoy the rest.
Legoswami
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> Well, it's been 5 months, and in the end, I got tired of trying to make a
> gearbox for this thing. The more I tried, the more frustruated I became, and
> as many over here have said, "If you're not enjoying it, don't do it." ¬So I
> let go off the gearbox idea for now-- Maybe when my skillz are more like teh
> ~ROSCO, I'll give it another shot. Till then, enjoy the rest.
>
> Legoswami
Sweet work Swami! Looking very good and a nice new train base idea. Glad you've
got over your builders block in such fine fashion.
Now if only you could compress it into six-wide it would be even better ;)
Tim
PS. S-lit
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Thats a great model on two levels. It looks great and has SO many innovative
design solutions. I really like the way you did the curved grill in the roof
(and the the small one at the other end too) The sideways chassis give a
completely different look and allows you to do interesting things with the
handrails, among other advantages.
I think you need to give the Lugnet great and good some more info tho. Have you
a got a prototype photo? How did you do the sideways chassis? How is the power
transferred to the wheels (I know there is a gearbox missing between the motor/
and bogie power transfer units) How is the fuel tank (?) built, is it made of
tires?
Tim
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Samarth Moray wrote:
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Well, it’s been 5 months, and in the end, I got tired of trying to make a
gearbox for this thing. The more I tried, the more frustruated I became, and
as many over here have said, “If you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it.”
So I
let go off the gearbox idea for now-- Maybe when my skillz are more like teh
~ROSCO, I’ll give it another shot. Till then, enjoy the rest.
Legoswami
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Hello Samarth,
Thank you for this very nice model. I also have few questions to understand how
you made it. I can see a 9V technic motor on the picture I left from your
previous message (nice snot btw), where does the 9V comes from? Do you pick it
up from the rails? Or is there a battery hidden somewhere in the loco? But where
:) ? What where your problems to connect the “engine” to the wheels?
A lot of building tricks in this loco, please explain some to help us. Perhaps
build a .ldr file... bye,
Philippe “frogleap” Label
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In lugnet.trains, Philippe Label wrote:
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Hello Samarth,
Thank you for this very nice model. I also have few questions to understand
how you made it. I can see a 9V technic motor on the picture I left from your
previous message (nice snot btw), where does the 9V comes from? Do you pick
it up from the rails? Or is there a battery hidden somewhere in the loco? But
where :) ? What where your problems to connect the “engine” to the wheels?
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Look at the centre of the picture carefully. There’s an old style white-coloured
9V battery box (8x4x2 studs) placed upside-down with the help of 2 1x2-1x4
brackets (note the grey strip adjecent to the white box) then the 1x2 ends of
the whole box are attached to the rest of the chassis. The whole thing is then
concealed with the fuel tank which is made of race-car tyres. Also holding the
edges together are minifig skeleton arms and 1x2 technic rods.
The main problem was that I’m simply not skilled enough with SNOT+technic to be
able to pull of a gearbox. If anyone can make a gearbox for me that can fit in
this space, WITH
forward, neutral and reverse, please do so!
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A lot of building tricks in this loco, please explain some to help us.
Perhaps build a .ldr file... bye,
Philippe “frogleap” Label
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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I think you need to give the Lugnet great and good some more info tho. Have
you a got a prototype photo? How did you do the sideways chassis? How is the
power transferred to the wheels (I know there is a gearbox missing between
the motor/ and bogie power transfer units) How is the fuel tank (?) built, is
it made of tires?
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Silly me, forgot to mention what proto this is to LUGNET.... JLUG already knows!
:-P
The proto is an ALCo DL560, WDM-2 class in India.
Here are some pics:
http://www.irfca.org/photos/GeneralScenes/twinkazi
http://www.irfca.org/photos/GeneralScenes/kzjtwins
http://www.irfca.org/photos/GeneralScenes/HP_20030930_001?full=1
http://www.irfca.org/photos/GeneralScenes/05060033_G?full=1
http://www.irfca.org/photos/GeneralScenes/18978_mly_purna?full=1
Now some info on the chassis. I already described how it is held together with
brackets, and the rest is a simple stud-brick connection. Here are some perks of
the SwamiChassis(1) design:
-Cheap source of Studlessness (no tiles required) and space for ‘thin’ detailing
like marker lamps
-Wheels in bogies can be placed at a more precise distance from each other, and
if you’re building a C-C setup,you don’t need to have them directly
adjecent to each other in order to be able to corner right.
-Precise width is possible. By adding 1x1 technic brick and holes with 1/2 pins,
you can add tiles to the sides and make your locos, say 6.3 studs wide,
7.3 studs wide or whatever. How’s that for more confusion? LOL.
-As for any concerns regarding stability, you can’t pick the loco up directly
without sufficent support on both it’s ends, or else it’ll fall apart. While
on rails, the bogies act like the pylons of a bridge, and add stability to
the whole sidewards structure.
Thanks for the comments all,
(1) If Ross can have his own engine company....
Legoswami
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