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Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:20:32 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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Very nice, but unless you’re doing some tricks I can’t see in your image, your
example locomotive won’t be able to handle corners.
You won’t be able to put three of these wheels next to each other and have them
go around Lego curves. If you move the middle wheels in a half stud, I think it
will work - but that adds another layer of complexity with attaching the
pushrods. Also, if you want to run three wheels together, it makes a very tight
threshold for the shape of the flange. You need the flange big enough and
angled enough that it won’t try to climb up the outside of a curve, but it still
needs to be small enough to fit through the switches.
My suggestion would be to just mold the counterweight into it, and make just one
mold. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a time I wouldn’t want to use
the counterweight...
So, when can I get a couple dozen in black? *grin*
JohnG, GMLTC
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
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| (...) Forget abou running behaviour for the moment: I just wanted to have an impression about the "feeling" of these wheels. How do they look like in a LEGO® engine. For a real model it would need blind drivers or a steering mechanism like here: (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Draft of a new driver wheel
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| Hi all! In the past we have collected some demands we train heads have on driver wheels. These have been requested several times at TLC so far. Here comes the wishlist to make up a draft for a new driver wheel: 1.) technic axle center 2.) peg hole (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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