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Re: New Applicator MOCs at Joe's Lego Page (love those tracks)
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Date: 
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:21:24 GMT
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Joe Davenport wrote:

The tracks work great.  The gears fit the track pieces perfectly;
the 3x3 pulleys just act as wheel covers.  They travel over almost
anything, the whole track assembly can also roll if needed, like
the wheel based, red version.  I wish TLG would use those pieces in
kits instead of those stiff, rubber track-wannabes.

I bet they work, I'd have been surprised if your creations did not. I
did not mean to impugn the operation... I instead meant "are these
prototypical" when I said:

Are these triangular wheel/track assemblies for real?

That is, do real farm machines use this trick? I seem to recall seeing a
machine somewhere IRL that had a triad wheel assembly but can't recall
for sure.

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  Re: New Applicator MOCs at Joe's Lego Page (love those tracks)
 
(...) Deere and Caterpillar do use tracks on some of their tractors. For older tractors, they offer kits that bolt on in place of the existing hub and tire. Since they use gear boxes to transfer the power from the axles to the track sprockets, they (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)

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  Re: New Applicator MOCs at Joe's Lego Page (love those tracks)
 
The tracks work great. The gears fit the track pieces perfectly; the 3x3 pulleys just act as wheel covers. They travel over almost anything, the whole track assembly can also roll if needed, like the wheel based, red version. I wish TLG would use (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)

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