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Re: Monorail Max Mileage?
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Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:06:18 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
In lugnet.town, Sanjay D'Souza writes:
[...]
- A curved track is 46 studs in length
[...]

I get 43.98...  What value are you using for as a radius in the
computation?


I read somewhere that the curved was 36cm's long.  With each stud being
about 7.8mm (7.8mm x 32 = 250cm (same size as a straight track)), therefore
46 studs = 36 cms.

Sanjay

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Millennium City @ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jsds



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  Re: Monorail Max Mileage?
 
(...) Well, the curved monorail tracks aren't actually perfect circle segments, because the stanchion holes in the middle don't fit into an irrational point on the lattice, but they're not so far deformed from a perfect circle as to give a value of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)

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  Re: Monorail Max Mileage?
 
(...) I get 43.98... What value are you using for as a radius in the computation? --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)

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