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| There's a lot of activity around Lego trains. Clubs, fans, shows, web sites, and lots more. If you look around, you should find some suggestions. Try this page for starters: (URL) a page with some information on point motors: (URL) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Carlo, Thanks for the reply! Why use the hinges and 1x2 with rail plate? Is this to strengthen the housing? In my attempts I added a 1x2 plate under the 2 hole 1x6 plate and no 1x4 tile underneth. I can't seem to get to the automated yard picture (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I didn't take pictures, but I did it w/ some gearing and clever placement of a touch-sensor. The key part was that the touch sensor (though light or rotation would work) would sense when the switch was vertical; I then used the motor like a big (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| "sebarile-MOBL" <steve.e.barile@intel.com> wrote in message news:G4v1EK.6yF@lugnet.com... (...) problem (...) over (...) *forgiving* (...) <snip> (...) If you don't mind a touch-sensor, you could try this one: (URL) automated point sports 1000+ (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| "STEVEBAR" <stevebarile@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G4vp62.Hy8@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) hole (...) diect (...) I used the hinges to keep within the "ItLUG train modules constraints". We specified the rails to be one plate height over the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Carlo, I built this version (see link below) and still the motor tears itself of the plates, once the gear teeth ride up on the top of the rack teeth. If I reduce the power level thru the RCX then there isn't enough torque to overcome the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Tilman, good info for the other folks reading along, but trust me, Steve Barile, as a founding member of PNLTC (either the oldest or second oldest, depending how you measure, Lego Train club ((URL) and grandfather to many of the rest of us (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi All, I went on a metro-area-wide hunt today to find some 2001 sets, and while there's nothing impressive yet, it's looking good. The only sets I could find at any of the TRU's (and these were the only ones available at all of them, strangely) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.mi)
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| "STEVEBAR" <stevebarile@yahoo.com> wrote... (...) to (...) hole (...) diect (...) This is a link to the page (sorry, not yet translated to English). Click on the pictures to enlarge them: (URL) links to the pictures: (URL) >Mario Ferrari built a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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