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(URL) on Calum's concept for an easier-to-construct version of the robotic gantry and cumbersome linear storage matrix I proposed a few weeks ago. I have some ideas on how to do a harmonic stabalizing linkage that would ensure the gondolas remain (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Rebel Transcanner" <hendryjr@oxford.net> wrote in message news:GurI4C.KuL@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) Iain (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) if you just look hard enough" but I think in this case I am not going to say that. :-) I looked, fairly hard, but have not found one... yet. However I WILL say that this will really rock if you can pull it off. The closest real trains come to (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) The prototype for the great train storage machine is actually a rotary launcher for the AGM-86B cruise missiles that fit in the bomb bay of a B-52 bomber: (URL) agree there probably isn't a train-industry prototype for such a device-though (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) ... (...) I was in a guys shop once and noticed such a garbage can. So I asked the usual 20 questions. Starting out.. Er.. Are you serious? This isn't a prop for some movie?... :-) Anyway, turned out that the point of the machines was to be (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GusKDG.HHz@lugnet.com... (...) somewhere. No, no, no :) The smart tower at the smart centres are simply static displays with all the various configurations of the smart (smart & pure, (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) C'mon, go for 4! Do it as a prototype. I'd love to see it work!!! -R (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Bummer. That would so rock if it were. I wonder what the biggest item ever vended via a vending machine was. (I've seen a LEGO(r) vending machine in Oz as you know, cool robot arm and all) The idea of vending a full size car is so darn silly (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Interesting rtlToronto factoid: Both Chris and I have run vending machines. My favourite machine was one that made french fries for you-they had one at the Etobicoke Olympium when I was a kid and it always intrigued me that a machine could (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes: <french fry vender> Yes, those are cool. Ditto the popcorn venders... <great contest idea for a vending machine> (...) Good thing you're in Canada then, inasmuch as one cent Canadian may be all people (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) can see). ROSCO (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I don't think they stay oriented either. They have to drop out straight as the ALCMs have expanding winglets that fold out and their flight path isn't a drop, it flies forward after clearing the bottom of the plane. IIRC the pylon launcher on (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) So then can you up in the tower and look at them on each floor? (...) What about making the wheel out of ZNAP, and each carrier holding one car only. That way you can make a train by picking the sequence of cars? Do only 4 or 8 cars? It would (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) In a Dutch magazine I saw a concept drawing for a real-life elevator for ships, based on a giant carousel like yours. If I remember correctly it was to be constructed in Britain. Eric (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GussIB.DAo@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) NO! NO!!!!!!! IT DOES NOTHING!!!!!! IT SITS THERE AND OFFERS A LOVELY VISUAL!!!!! It does absolutely nothing at all, it's silly, the cars probably (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Eric Brok" <e.c.t.brok@nospampl...e.kpn.com> wrote in message news:Gusyvy.115@lugnet.com... (...) was (...) Yeah, I posted that here like... 4 days ago :) Falkirk Wheel. Iain (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) When you say "have run" do you mean you were the person who kept them fed with product, emptied out the cash, reset prices, etc. or something else? If so, me too! I used to "run" (for about 2 years) the pop machine at my fraternity house. It (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Basically. I think Chris ran a whole network of them. Calum (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It wasn't mentioned in this thread, right? Being Dutch, I don't track the Toronto local news that well. :-) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Unless you find some sort of 'prototype' of train storage like that, I'd say "Who says the train cars need to remain 'upright'?" As long as the bogies are snapped in and sliding doors on boxcars won't fall off, use internal magnets or clamps (...) (23 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Of course, you don't necessaily have to *actively* keep them upright - if you suspend the tracks from a reasonable height, gravity will do the work for you. This will limit the CoG of your rolling stock, but you should be able to get it (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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