 | | Re: Zwolle —Manfred Moolhuysen
| | | | (...) I would love to read this in English, as far as the humor is translatable. (...) If you have any questions you would like to ask to a member of the organizing committee directly, I'm one of them, so feel free to ask me anything. With friendly (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.pt)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Zwolle —Pedro Silva
| | | | | | Hi Manfred! (...) Better ask someone in .loc.it... I understand *some* italian, but I'm afraid I cannot comprehensively translate the whole story. Sorry... :-( (...) Yes, I have a couple of questions for you! But first allow me to congratulate you (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Zwolle —Pedro Silva
| | | | | | | | (...) (snipped) (...) I forgot to ask: #6 - Do you have any pictures of the drawbridges? How are they operated (gears, pneumatic)? How does the track maintain conductibility? Pedro (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Zwolle —Manfred Moolhuysen
| | | | | | | | | (...) There where no drawbridges. There was a swivel-bridge (rotating in a horizontal plane) operated with a micro motor and gears. I haven't seen a close-up picture of it. It did operate, but it wasn't strong enough to overcome the friction of the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Zwolle —Pedro Silva
| | | | | | | | | (...) You wouldn't happen to know about anyone who has successfully built a drawbridge of, say, some 64 studs (32 + 32)? With double tracks... You see, if I were to send some creation for display at "next Zwolle", I'd like to try that. I say "send" (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Zwolle —Manfred Moolhuysen
| | | | | | | It took some time before I could relax and sit down to answer your questions, but here they are: (...) Visitors: All days where sold out. I're read a newpaper article claiming that over the four days the event lasted we've recieved 40000 visitors. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Zwolle —Pedro Silva
| | | | | | | (...) There was an entrance fee? Wow! We'd never manage to do that here! (...) Oh, yeah! VERY! But then again, you have had a club for a long time... so there is some organization among the fans. (...) I was very impressed with the photos. Were all (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Zwolle —Manfred Moolhuysen
| | | | | | | (...) I would say it was quite mixed. Ofcourse the prictures highlight those exibits that attracted the most attention, but there where less ambitious projects to be seen also. For instance, I consider myself not being a great desingner, so for a (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Zwolle —Mario Ferrari
| | | | | "Manfred Moolhuysen" <moom@nospamchello.nl> ha scritto: (...) It's mostly about our adventures in reaching the place of the meeting and the bungalows. It tells, with a humorous touch, the amazing number of U turns we had to perform in Amsterdam, in (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.pt)
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