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Re: Comments on some unofficial Train parts
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Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:38:51 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Martin Srb wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> glad to see the traffic on Parts Tracker! As a railway fan I am double-glad to
> see some Train-specific parts developing. However, I have noticed some issues
> with part naming so I think it's better to solve them while the parts are
> "unofficial". Sorry, my CAD experience is not enough to become a proper part
> reviewer, that's why I'm posting this on Lugnet.
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> 1. Train Base 6x28 with holes
> There are two versions of this part on the PT, named 4093a and 4093b. However,
> in real life there is also a third version. It has six round holes for bogies
> each end, a round hole in the middle and two rectangular holes, that means 15
> holes alltogether. This version appeared in the late 12V era and early 9V era
> sets (e.g. 7817, 4543 from my collection).
> Probably the 15-hole version should bear the filename 4093b and the 8-hole
> version be called 4093c then.
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> 2. Train Battery Box Car
> As far as I can tell from my disassembled batterycar: the part number 3443 is
> molded onto the black base. The red (blue, black) car body has no number on it.
> PT can probably use some unofficial number for the car body until someone finds
> a car body with numbers.
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> 3. Battery Boxes 4.5V (rectangular, dimensions approx. 6x11x3)
> There are three main types of the battery box:
> Type 1 - bottom opening, bottom contacts, box and lid connected by wires
> (overall height 3 bricks)
> Type 2 - top opening, thin lid, bottom contacts (overall height 3 bricks)
> Type 3 - top opening, thick lid, no bottom contacts (overall height 3 1/3
> bricks)
> The problem is that Type 2 and 3 lids can be removed completely and switched
> between battery boxes (it is possible to have grey thick lid on a blue box with
> bottom contacts). I think these lids should be treated as separate parts (like
> the battery box car & battery box car roof).
SNIP
I think you are talking about these battery boxes:
your type 1
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/x593c01.dat
your type 3 (note the opening for the contacts in the case)
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/x560ac01.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/x560bc01.dat
your type 2
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/x560c01.dat
I think this is complete.
See also here: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=bb45
cu
mikeheide
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| (...) Thanks, I also think this is complete (good work!). I just suggested to split the "x560etc." into two parts, like: (URL) a question of what can be considered a part. Battery boxes are usually made of two "parts" in real life. I'm not sure if (...) (15 years ago, 16-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| Hello everyone, glad to see the traffic on Parts Tracker! As a railway fan I am double-glad to see some Train-specific parts developing. However, I have noticed some issues with part naming so I think it's better to solve them while the parts are (...) (15 years ago, 15-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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