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| | | Any desire for me to bring the "Rail Racers" set up with me? Any train heads want to put their trains to the test? jt -- James J. Trobaugh North Georgia LEGO Train Club (URL) Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) If you've got the room, ya! Any tips for builders? ++Lar (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | I got room in the car, just need to find some room at Brickfest. If nothing else we can run them down a hall or something. The only "official" rules for the Class I drag racers are: 1) train must be no longer than 4 sections of track 2) train must (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Jake McKee
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| | | | | (...) Sounds interesting! Do tell more! I haven't heard about this before. Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) You should have come to the preparty (on Friday nite) instead of going out with your non Lego friends... we had some racing there, James brought two of his racers. :-) I'll never forget the look on the faces of the Holiday Inn bar crew when we (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Jake McKee
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| | | | | | (...) Oh man! You know how it is when you promise your wife you will do something! (...) So I gather this is a competition with 4 (?) lengths of straight track and an engine (one motor or two?) and an additional car. Drag racing for fastest setup? (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | Ok Jake here's how it works. There are two lanes of straight track (at the shows we normally have about a 15' foot strip set up). There is a speed regulator for each lane. At the starting point there is a lighted "christmas" tree controlled by a (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Christina Hitchcock
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| | | | | | | I've added "Rail Racers" to the list of activities and I look forward to seeing this. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | | Ok great, I guess I'll have to get my trains tuned up and ready to take on the competition. jt (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) Do you randomise the motors? I can see people with a lot of motors trying to sort through their motors to find their fastest ones for the meet. (I wouldn't do that, but I know for sure I have one or two that are way slower than average and are (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | | (...) You can run any motor you want as long as it hasn't been opened and/or modified. The ideal thing to do would be to bring along a couple of fresh motors and run the best of the bunch. I have found that brand new motors don't always run faster (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Jake McKee
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| | | | | | WOW! That is terrific! I love it!! I am impressed with the technology too! I would assume part of the skill is not just gunning it full speed on the green light, but rather quickly working up to speed for better traction. Oh and I assume with your (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | Well if you build your train right you can get away with "just gunning it". If it's too light then you do get a lot of wheel spin, of course too heavy and you slow the train down. And yes there is a width limit, I failed to mention that in my (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Use a battery box to light the lights. This has the advantage of adding some weight too, which could be useful. So the unit has to be seperable at some point? Or does it have to use a magnetic coupling? Or does it just need to be some number (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | (...) A battery box might be a bit too much weight, but you're more than welcome to try. The train does not have to use magnetic coupling (actually the Green Machine has a ball and socket connection, and one of my newer trains doesn't have a true (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: event "champions"... —Stephen F. Roberts
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| | | | (...) ...Now that sounds like fun! :-) ...Christina: Sounds like we have a new set of events and demos to set up here. ...James: So what kind of support do you want to run? Obviously there will be the runs themselves, maybe a "build a rail racer for (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | Re: event "champions"... —James Trobaugh
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| | | | (...) I was thinking we could have some kind of time trails during the day, then have the finals with a single elimination event during the evening. This way everyone gets to run their racers some, get a feel for the track and then decide if they (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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