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Re: T.j's Tractor
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:50:06 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Thomas Avery writes:
In lugnet.technic, Steven Lane writes:

Uh-oh, the cat's out of the bag! Steve has posted his number!

Figure!

What surface did you place your truck on? I need to find a suitable surface
that is just rough enough to provide optimum traction.

I ran my truck on the same brown table that you can see on my site. It's a
smooth shiny surface, perfect for adhesion between it and a rubber tyre.

So well done T.J. I'll now have to think about upgrading my truck from 2
gear motors to 4 to match T.j's tractor.

No, don't do that :-) You'll be breaking gears like me!

I tend to break the surrounding structure, I haven't broken a gear in ages.

I'll post my new results soon after I get my new tires. Maybe I can convice
Santa to come early and bring my 8466!

I don't think Santa is corruptable :-)

Steve



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(...) surface (...) Speaking of optimum traction, has anyone seen Brazil? It was on last Sunday and featured an extremely cool Scammell truck with a pretty cool driver... was this a real Scammell truck or just something tarted up for the film? (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: T.j's Tractor
 
(...) Uh-oh, the cat's out of the bag! Steve has posted his number! I'm hoping to pull a little more than 3kg by using the tires from the 8466, but I doubt I'll reach 4kg. What surface did you place your truck on? I need to find a suitable surface (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)

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