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Re: motorized cars?
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lugnet.town
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:06:39 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Joe Strout wrote:
> Has anyone done anything with motorized cars that drive around the town?
> (I mean, anyone besides LegoLand!)
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> I've thought of a couple of vague ideas:
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> - magnets under the street that pull the cars along
The GMLTC did this on our previous layout. You can just see our 'quarry' dump
truck to the right of the famous blue locomotive:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=11090
We had a technic chain set up around several gears, with a magnet that pulled
the truck around the circle. It was *very* reliable, but be cautioned - it
really did a LOT of wear on the tiles.
This is probably easier to do around a small area, I don't know how well it
would work in a larger loop. And the way the magnet mounted (using a
'bulldozer' chain link) you're limited to only turning in one direction (left or
right)...
JohnG, GMLTC
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| Has anyone done anything with motorized cars that drive around the town? (I mean, anyone besides LegoLand!) I've thought of a couple of vague ideas: - magnets under the street that pull the cars along - a slotted street that guides motorized cars - (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.town)
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