 | | Shay Chassis (Uni Joint Mods for Trains) —Mark Bellis
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| | | (...) Good news! I have a chassis working, powered by a 43362 motor on board. The bogie centres are still 1ft too far apart at 26ft (26L), but I have 1.5L of axle in the middle, giving 2 lots of 0.5L support from liftarms and 0.5L in the middle for (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Shay Chassis (Uni Joint Mods for Trains) —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | (...) cut off (...) wide, (...) train (...) flex (...) to (...) together the (...) pulley (...) so I've (...) parts (...) Show pics! I love a good hack! (21 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Shay Chassis (Uni Joint Mods for Trains) —Mark Bellis
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| | | | (...) Sorry no digital camera, but I'm thinking of devoting a brickshelf folder to mods eventually. I'll take film pictures when it all works and get the CD too. I had it working at a pulley ratio of 1:4 last night - about realistic Shay speed at 9V (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Shay Chassis (Uni Joint Mods for Trains) —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | (...) Shay (...) that a (...) 43362 (...) I'd like to see a mod (still trying to come up with it myself too), to eliminate the need for the train motor altogether. That would work great one your Shay. I wonder if we can get someone to manufacture (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Shay Chassis (Uni Joint Mods for Trains) —Mark Bellis
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| | | | (...) I experimented with using paper fasteners as pickups with the 12V railway a few years ago. I wrapped each one round a toggle joint and rested it on the conductor rails. This would probably be a bad idea for 9V track as scratching it would wear (...) (21 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Shay Chassis (Uni Joint Mods for Trains) —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | (...) the (...) advertised (...) Maybe a plaster mold could be made to pour liquid metal into. I was actually thinking someone with a milling machine could step in for the challenge of producing a metal one. (...) and a (...) actually (...) I have a (...) (21 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Shay Chassis (Uni Joint Mods for Trains) —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) One idea for rubber tires is slices of bike tyre inner tube. Dunno how well it would hold though, and it would raise the height slightly. But it doesn't require a mod ;) ROSCO (Is a mod to a non-LEGO part such a bad thing anyway????) (21 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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