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    Capacitor madness —Jeff Elliott
    I'm going to need to borrow some real estate in Lower Altenburg. Jeff? Can a grab a small chunk of portland next to the road? It's FunFair time! See, I've had a ferris wheel model languishing for some time. So last night, I rebuilt it in brighter (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —David Koudys
     In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Jeff Elliott writes: <snip> (...) We do have two modules right now that are not officially spoken for--one on each side of the dam. Now we had guest buildings on them for the last train show, but if we're doing this NMRA (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Capacitor madness —Jeff Van Winden
     (...) The one above the dam could be spoken for, version 2 of my dam, has been designed to the proper module specs, (no more 97 stud lengths), as part of the dam design I was going to build two half modules that would be placed on either side of the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Capacitor madness —Derek Raycraft
      (...) Hey, this makes me think we could make a 2 wide version of the Altenburg layout. Much more protable. :-) Derek (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Capacitor madness —David Koudys
      In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Jeff Van Winden writes: <snip> (...) I'll post tonight the layout of the train yard/firestation that I was thinking about but basically, a full module placed to the right of Jeffs ramp and above my Christmastree farm (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Capacitor madness —Calum Tsang
     (...) We've got to be a little careful with scale. The American LTCs often have this incredibly overscaled buildings which dominate the layout--like a four module gas station or a six module church. That's insane. Best thing to do is to bring it to (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Capacitor madness —Chris Magno
      (...) HEY!! if Dave can bring his 12 module fire station, then I think we should allow other people to bring in LARGE church's and Cathedrals. (smirk) Chris Why do solar calculators have an off button? (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Capacitor madness —David Koudys
     (...) Is not 12, is not 4 modules--it's 6 regular baseplates (3 baseplates by 2 baseplates)--it fits on one module. The issue is, then, either there's no road on that baseplate, or no two sets of track... I think that Chris just wants a 4 module (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: general madness —Chris Magno
      (...) no, but I do want technics figure scaled houses of ill repute. (...) in this lug... yes. if its cross posted to ANYWHERE else... no. if its a tuesday, YES, unless its cross posted to Calum if in the message you refer to Iain's dreams... then (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: general madness —David Koudys
     (...) clrscr was an inverse heart--talk about dusting off obscure corners of my memory. I used to make all these little keyboard graphic movies on the PET and the 64. Boy what fun It's when I learned that FOR/NEXT loops should never be used for time (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —Jeff Van Winden
     (...) Of Course you can... There is also spme space between the ramp and the road that (could be used) I will be starting re-construction of the Portlands after the rtl 13 event.. (I guess I should start building for that...) (...) :) I can do that, (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —Iain Hendry
   (...) How hard is the gearmotor to turn? I briefly fiddled with that at Calum's last week and could barely turn the shaft! Maybe I was going the wrong way...? (...) Mondial makes some wheels with capacity of nearly 1 000 :) (...) Do you know what (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —Chris Magno
     iain (...) in this picture a perfect stranger is in the background looking at you as if you are some sort of freak. -- Chris Why do solar calculators have an off button? (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Capacitor madness —Calum Tsang
      (...) Oh my god! It's Chris Tucker! Calum (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
     
          Iain's freaky in the back ground —Chris Magno
      (...) you (...) Calum; NOW who is being the FREAK!!! look at this web page.... scroll down to the Bio for Chris Tucker... (URL) are so wrong. that guy dose not look like the guy in Iain's PIC. not even close. first off the guy's hair is too (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Capacitor madness —Iain Hendry
     "Chris Magno" <hollynorth@bellnet.ca> wrote in message news:3E5BBC39.5344AF...lnet.ca... (...) Yeah, I get that a lot. :-/ You have no idea how epic a machine the Revolution is until you have done it, espically at dusk or night. Truly something (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —Jeff Elliott
    (...) Possibly. Although it's not noticeably harder to turn the 'wrong' way, just that the LED never lights, and the total charge is much, much lower when you stop. I used a pin stuck into a z40 gear to wind it, and I found it easy to wind at a (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —Iain Hendry
   "Jeff Elliott" <jeffe@telepres.com> wrote in message news:3E5BC4E6.1CDA80...res.com... (...) Scrambler, sure! Have a look at the Mondial "Shake" or HUSS "Booster" - both of those machines draw parallels to the scrambler but add aditional free-driven (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —Iain Hendry
   (...) Here is a better page with all detail pictures including setup. (URL) will warn you that if you are browsing around the German fair sites, you will undoubtedly come across pictures of the backdrops on their machines. They are... well, you'll (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —David Koudys
   (...) Yeah, is amazing how the 'old country' is much less conservative than North America, and yet we think we're the 'light of the world' with our democracy, our tolerance, our 'enlightenment' and all that. But this isn't o.t-d ;) Dave K -who, no (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Capacitor madness —Iain Hendry
   (...) I have this one picture of a KMG/Tivoli Remix - on the backdrop it's got this guy with a USA hat, giving the finger with both hands at the riders. And his buddy next to him is all decked out in bling bling at the turntables. It's great. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 

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