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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 18:00:08 GMT
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> 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)
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> 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
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, the ball bearing would make contact behind the wheel
and the spring would ensure tension. I could solder a wire to the spring
and go from there to the motor. Of course, all this is rough speculation...
But I'm thinking,
Rob
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| (...) A sufficiently thin wiper made of spring metal, vertically arranged, with a horizontal tab with a suitable hole punched in it so that it would fit between two plates to hold it in place, which then had a wire soldered to it leading off to the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)
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| (...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)
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