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Re: Train 3 Height and Width
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Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:31:06 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry writes:
> "Jeff Van Winden" <Jvwinden@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:GpLEE0.7Kq@lugnet.com...
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> > This question is posed to Derek and Iain:
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> > will both of your trains and wagons fit through this area (its 15 blocks • and
> > 1 plate in at the highest point....
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=100251
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> Oh hellz yeah. I can clear that no problemo! Awesome. :)
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> (Looks like I *can* make it to train3 after all, btw.)
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> I think we found at the MONLUG train show that the width of the eluraCar is
> extremly disproportionate to the height. It's tall, but it's not wide. It's
> an 8wide car (with hand strap secured to the body of the camera so it
> doesn't flop all about), but at like 14.1 high (bricks.plates, ie, 0.3 =
> 1.0). So it tends to make openings in structures really nasty sized :-/
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> I guess we just have to decide, does the satisfaction people get from
> watching the POV clips in the videos outweight the added headaches of
> construction? It's something I've been thinking about for a while. I hate to
> like, imply that everything HAS to have an opening that big, just for the
> camera I happen to have. Feels kinda guilty :-/
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> > I have created a train station (the dark grey region in this image
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=95077 ) and one of the • roof
> > support pillars, may be in the way, if your wagons, are 15b 1p (b=brick,
> > p=plate (for Chris ;-) )) right across.
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> WOW! That's a lot of stuff!!
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> We should all make an effort to take some pictures of how Jeff packs the
> stuff in his car, and send them to show Subaru. :)
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> Iain
:)
I was thinking of that just last night.....
I think I will need to do some module stacking (RTL 11???). Calum, did you
use 1 x 2 peices of plywood to stack your modules?
What am I going to do when I want to build more modules... (because I have
an Idea for 2 more....)
Jeff VW
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| (...) 2x2, I think. I think Chris helped me chop them down to 24 inches each (eight feet). I drilled in three holes in each, making the spacing about 21-22 inches between each module. I bolted them in an offset fashion (one on each side on the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| "Jeff Van Winden" <Jvwinden@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:GpLEE0.7Kq@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) (Looks like I *can* make it to train3 after all, btw.) I think we found at the MONLUG train show that the width of the eluraCar is extremly (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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