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Re: RCX Train
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:29:44 GMT
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Medical Informatics Consulting <MEDINFO@AROS.NETantispam>
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You could try to use the angle brackets to mount large plates vertically.
That would give you about 6 or 6.5 studs of width. Of course they will
increase the width of the train car. Why not just use a flatbed car and a
couple of the knotted nets and say that's it is a odd-sized cargo?
Matt
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Matthew Bates wrote:
> lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Medical Informatics Consulting) writes:
> > Matt have you though about using the car base plates and boogies from the
> > 4559 set. The drop floor of the car plates might make it easier to fit an
> > RCX in a car.
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> I imagine it might fit somehow, but I couldn't think what the thing would be -
> some kind of huge covered freight car? My solution looks like an ordinary box
> car. The other problem is how do you make the sides? Trains are 6 studs wide
> and mosts ways of building train cars mean that the cavity inside is only 4
> studs, that isn't enough room for an RCX. I use two 14x6 plates as the sides
> which nicely fit where the sliding doors were and gives me more than 4 studs
> worth of space inside. I'm not sure how you could translate this idea to the
> 4559 low-loader plates without it looking rather odd.
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> Matt
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| (...) I imagine it might fit somehow, but I couldn't think what the thing would be - some kind of huge covered freight car? My solution looks like an ordinary box car. The other problem is how do you make the sides? Trains are 6 studs wide and mosts (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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