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Re: Idea for new train wheel
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lugnet.parts.custom
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Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:50:41 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.custom, Rob Hendrix wrote:
> I've been wondering if some estudious person with a milling machine could
> make some train wheels in the style of the BBB wheels from metal. That way
> we might could pick up power from the Lego track and apply power to a
> technic motor.
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> Discuss!
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> Rob H
Do we need the whole wheel to be metal? Or would snap on tyres be sufficient?
What if you made metal flanged (and blind) tyres that snapped onto the current
BBB blind wheel? It would increase the size a bit, no doubt but might avoid the
expensive part of the tooling (the spokes and axle hub and stuff)
What arrangments owuld you make for power transfer? Wipers? Something that was a
pair of wipers at one end (that somehow fit into something LEGO) and a 2x2 wire
connector at the other end might be a good approach
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| (...) sufficient? (...) current (...) avoid the (...) was a (...) wire (...) My thinking was to use a technic beam as the support structure and have a small ball bearing (bee bee?) and spring in one of the technic holes behing the wheel. That way, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)
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| I've been wondering if some estudious person with a milling machine could make some train wheels in the style of the BBB wheels from metal. That way we might could pick up power from the Lego track and apply power to a technic motor. Discuss! Rob H (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)
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