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Re: Is it wrong to cut up flex tubing?
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:39:51 GMT
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"Jeff Elliott" <jeffe@telepres.com> wrote in message
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> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/derek/miscellaneous/tiltblock2.gif
> Looking at the rendering... you've captured a flex tube between two
> of those motor-mounting 2x1 plates with the extra bit on them? And
> that's your axle for the train? I think that's one of the more im-
> pressive outside-the-box solutions I've seen in a dog's age!
There isn't any flex tubing in Derek's *axles*, he's got it between the
crosses in the 2x1x0.5 beams that are shown as 3x1x0.5 beams. But what I
don't get is how some people are saying this truck design with the axle
siting inside of the motor mounts requires flex tubing - I don't see where
it's required. I put the axle between the 2x1 plates with the flange thing
on them and it's fine.
> But I was wondering why the 1x4 plate with the town-wheel-mounting
> pins on the ends wouldn't work? It in the wrong size?
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> http://extranet.telepres.com/staff/jeffe/trainwheels.jpg
Wheels like that don't spin nicely and they squeak.
Iain
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| Sorry to jump into the thread late and dumb, but *doh*... Looking at the rendering... you've captured a flex tube between two of those motor-mounting 2x1 plates with the extra bit on them? And that's your axle for the train? I think that's one of (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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