 | | Re: Advanced Design Train Roundhouse —Reinhard "Ben" Beneke
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| | | In lugnet.org.us.lucny, Ben Fleskes writes: [Snip after reading it twice] (...) Thanks Ben (from PNLTC), for posting your basical design rules for the PNLTC roundhouse. I have been working some more on my roundhouse redesign yesterday night and have (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Advanced Design Train Roundhouse —William R. Ward
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| | | | | (...) To get the turntable as low as possible I think the key is to remove the requirement that the motor be located under the rotating track. Here are a couple of possibilities: * If you put the motor outside the circle and have it drive a wheel (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Advanced Design Train Roundhouse —Reinhard "Ben" Beneke
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks for sharing these ideas: I have had the motor outside the turntable and had a long connecting axle hidden underneath the turntables visible floor. But in the end this lead to my 5 bricks high solution, that I dislike. In a beta-version (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Advanced Design Train Roundhouse —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Steve Ringe, our 8 Wide King. I will see if I can get him to reply, he usually is too busy building to post much. (...) The turntable sequences by using mindstorms touch sensors to detect when the table is "close" to the approach track and (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Advanced Design Train Roundhouse —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) it, just the main drive. It's a fairly standard drive with the motor in the house. Another note, Steve's setup is very modular. Although it makes up a fixed configuration (that spans at least a 5x8 foot area when the yard is included), it's (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains)
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