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| (...) Awesome hoppers! I love the ladders on the sides. Brilliant use for levers, and not as bulky as some other methods. One question though; what is the part he used for the brake wheels on the hoppers? Is it an official part or a mutilated one? (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: New MOCs: hoppers, cars, microtank
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| (...) Mutilating is such a harsh word;-) What he actually did was to simply remove the wheel from the car steering wheel element and attached it onto a section of flexible technic tubing. We need a ruling as to whether or not that constitutes (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Oh...Perfect!!! Now I know what to do with my future freight cars. (...) I'm assuming this is from the older (early 90s) sets? I've never seen an instruction booklet with that. They've always been at the right lengths right out of the box. (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: New MOCs: hoppers, cars, microtank
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| (...) Some Technic sets require the cutting of flex tubing. This page of Set 8459 - Pneumatic Front End Loader instructions shows what the various lengths are needed to cut the long pieces included in the box into: (URL) Bob (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Ah, but that's the softer pneumatic pipes, not the harder flex-system tubing. (Although they could be the same now, as I haven't seen a pneumatic set since they introduced double-acting cylinders). Jason J Railton (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: New MOCs: hoppers, cars, microtank
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| (...) Yep. The mutilation is not the tubing cutting, it is in taking the wheel off the car steering wheel part as the nub on the base is heat formed to hold the wheel on, it's not intended to be removed. But that wheel is so useful, I heartily (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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