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| Dear Fredrik, I have made a quite similar posting concerning this on r.t.l yesterday, since I thought it might be a problem of my PC. But actually it was a failure of the Lego® homepage. I think we shold not start a diskussion about cheating, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi Douglas, sorry I have no black nose-piece as spare, but is set 6473 already discontinued in the US? Here it's still in the shelfs. After my first view on James Mathies gorgeous "Starlight Express" engine, I also bought two copies of that set (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New mod to double decker passenger train
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| Dear James M., I just wanted to say again, you are one of my personal "gods of Lego®" (next to Eric Brok)! Please go on with your design of european "trash". I rally enjoy your page whenever I visit it, or show it to a friend of mine. And of course (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Rest in piece!
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| Kondolenz vom Totengräber (...) in stiller Trauer, hört dazu hier rein: (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.de)
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| (...) These spoked wheels (for e.g. used in "Hobby sets" like 390 Cadillac) cause some trouble on points and track crossings. But the look really great, even if they might be a little to big: if you try to build a steam engine with 4 big wheeled (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Spoked Train Wheels?
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| (...) Dear John Torsten has made the outer red rings (with a big flange) on a lathe from plastic material you can buy in any diameters (he used 50mm round material of red PVC). Only to fix these outer rings on the spoked wheels he uses O-rings: You (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Favorite Lego Train?
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| Seems to me, as if we people in good old Europe have a little different view on trains (exept from James Mathis of course). Like Arjen, most of my frieds like the trains from the early 80ies most. I'm of the opinion 1983 was the greatest year for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Before getting more requests about the thing above: I was talking of the best Lego-Train-Year 1983. And at that time the 7750 was still in the shelfes..... Regards Ben (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Why shouldn't it be possible? Actually I only know the spirals of Jan, a friend of mine, who built them for 12V track. But they are far to big, to get them on most tables. With an increase of one brick per 16 studs of track, all the 12V (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Blue Electric Track
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| (...) That's right. And all the other explanations given by you are valid too. Thanks. (...) Indeed there have been remote controlled automatic points first. They have been invented in the late 60ies (1969?). (...) It's mainly Torsten Wernecke, who (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9v train motors at higher voltage
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| Dear Ben, the Lego®-motors are to small to have a thermal switch. Only the speed regulator has one, to avoid damage on the regulator by short cuts in the curcuit. But you can drive the 9V motor for quite a while with at least 12V, since all Lego® (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Congrats Ben!
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| Thanks to Ben Fleskes for your nice words and of course thanks to all the ones who supported me in my Lego hobby and in the vote into the Lego hall of fame of the builders gallerie! And Ben (the one from PLNTC) in fact your roundhouse was the first (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help to identify a train set !!
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| (...) Hi Steven! Sorry to tell you, but I have no spare 4551 at hand, otherwise I would have liked to make a deal 127 against 4551. Actually 127 and 116 are roughly the same with two main differences: 116 has no magnetic couplings, but the older (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help to identify a train set !!
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| (...) sets. (...) motor (...) I (...) and the (...) larger (...) In (...) lastly (...) Dear Steven! I would bet you have got the 127 set, even if the printed bricks of your set look like the one from 116. Maybe Lego has used the changed version (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Just a quick question!
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| Hi Jamie, the parabolic 8x8 radar antenna is not chromed. It is just the normal grey coulor of Lego. So you can use it for your project. Leg Godt, Ben (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What do you do with multiple Blue Hoppers?
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| Any ideas what to do with multiple copies of waggon set 2126? They have been sold out in Germany during the last month and I collected "some" of them as cheap brickyard. (URL) far I have only build up the beer waggons and have left a quite big (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What do you do with multiple Blue Hoppers?
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| (...) No, original prices in the shops have been 100 to 120 DM (50 to 60 $). I started to buy some copies, when the price was 80 DM. Then I had the chance to get 3 for 50 DM each. After that again some for 60 ..75 DM. Last week I got 3 for an (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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