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Re: MOC: RCX mifig-scale wire-pulled train
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:37:26 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Chris Caron wrote:
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Hello all
I just finished my model of a cable-liner cable-drawn rapid transit system
piloted with a RCX.
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Chris-
What a cool project!
Looks like inspiration to build a funicular (the same thing but intended to go
up and down hills). Of course, to do that (I’m always thinking in LTC display
mode) requires a hill to go with it.
I didn’t see whether you had an active mechanism to maintain cable tension or
just did a very careful job setting the cable length?
-Ted Michon
SCLTC
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 | | Re: MOC: RCX mifig-scale wire-pulled train
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| (...) That's a good idea!! This would require two wagons for balancing: one going up while the other is going down. Alas!! I will never have enough bricks to build the hill!! :o( (...) No there is no mechanism to maintain the cable tension. I tought (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | MOC: RCX mifig-scale wire-pulled train
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| Hello all I just finished my model of a cable-liner cable-drawn rapid transit system piloted with a RCX. (URL) This is a mifig-scale wire-pulled wagon inspired from real life: I first saw it in a hotel in Reno, NV at the Circus-Circus. It is very (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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