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Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:39:05 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:

So, when can I get a couple dozen in black? *grin*

Brad said “no”. But there are other parties than TLC. Would you (and what about the other train heads?) ignore this design, when it would be done by a third party supplier?

Like I said, when can I get a couple dozen in black?

I don’t see a problem with a third-party product if the quality is good. I can definitely forsee having to explain to *everyone* who looks at our train layout that these wheels are NOT a Lego product. But, I could live with that - especially if those people could buy them easily. (Bricklink store, perhaps?)

JohnG, GMLTC



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  Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
 
I suspect that you have to do the same explaining when someone comments on the gorgeous monorails that many clubs use in their layouts... "Oh that? It is a bunch of monorail set and parts from the lat 80's - but Lego no longer produces them..." (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
 
(...) 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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