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Re: 10133 BNSF Mod using BBB wheels
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:38:22 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
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Ben Fleskes wrote:
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The 10133 BNSF GP-38 Locomotive is a nice engine.
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You are a bad, bad man with very good marketing skills :)
Chris
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ahh well it may be a plug for his parts but its still a cool idea. ill have
to look into using them on my 8 wides.
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These look great. The technic disk are way to wide for a 6wide engine. Ive done
something similar for a GP9s fans. But I used regular plastic 9v era wheels. If
you remove them from the metal axel, they have an almost stud on the back. The
wheels almost stud can be extended with a 1x1 plate or brick. Ive also used
adventurer spoked wheels for tall fan shrouds on a set of F3s (phase 3 or
earlier engines).
Funit identifiying
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now if i could only get the small bbb wheels in an unslotted version i could
eliminate the euro trash wheel holders.
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Unspoked? There are a number of ways to use 9v style wheels without the trucks.
Ive used technic bricks with pins, and Ive seen others that use old style
wheel bricks
and
plates. You need to remove
the hubs and axel from the later two befor using.
Mat
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: 10133 BNSF Mod using BBB wheels
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| (...) I'm aware of that concept as well as one I used 2 yrs ago. (URL) The main issue is friction and the ability to make wheel sets "trucks" without having to rip apart Lego train wheels. It would also be kinda cool to mount the wheels from the (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) ahh well it may be a plug for his parts but it's still a cool idea. i'll have to look into using them on my 8 wides. now if i could only get the small bbb wheels in an unslotted version i could eliminate the euro trash wheel holders. ondrew (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains)
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