Subject:
|
Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:23:30 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1774 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
| |
9.) counterweight as “click-on” extra part, (if 2 moulds were possible)
|
All right, I’m willing to risk some ridicule for not knowing this. What is the
purpose of the counterweight? Is it to balance the load of the drive rod, so
that the wheel never has to “lift” and weight, per se?
What is the “weight” like? A small metal-filled LEGO piece?
Is that something that is typically done in real trains? How about model
trains? And have people successfully implemented it in LEGO trains?
Has there been previous conversation here on .trains that I’ve misse concerning
coutnerweights? Anybody have any links?
I’m drooling at the concept!
-s
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
|
| (...) Counterweights were used on real steam engines to compensate the weight of the connection to the rod, so that the wheel would be in balance again. Without, or with incorrect counterweight, at higher speeds there would be a significant (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Draft of a new driver wheel
|
| 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) !!
|
56 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
