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(...) I used an exacto saw to remove the metal contact 'nib' from the joint. I put a red 1x2 tile on that piece so I don't lose it (in all my other track). I learned the hard way - trying to find a piece of track among a huge pile! (...) I sawed off (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) John didn't say which question he was answering. As it turns out, this trick works BOTH to electrically insulate track sections AND to let them be mechanically separated. If you only want electrical insulation your options depend on your (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) 9volt trains will jump that gap with no problems at all. You can kind of see it in this picture, between the grey bascule bridge and the adjoining truss bridge: (URL) bascule section drops down 1 stud apart from the 'fixed' section, it comes (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello everybody, I have two problems two solve that I imagine many of you guys solved years ago. I used the Lugnet search engine but wasn't able to find the tricks... 1) How can I electrically insulate a section of tracks, I mean two adiacent tracks (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the photo, I may want to try something like that. One idea hit me last night but I have to see if the LEGO geomerty works. My idea would be to use those plate hinges; I'm going to build a test model today to see if it would work. Adrian (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Some theories: How big are the thumbnails? If they are still pretty big that will slow things down. A thumbnail should be no more than 20K or so, especially if you have scads of them. More importantly, are you using height= and width= tags on your (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Did I mention how many times it's been down....? }:-V -John (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I (...) And you can say that after all the complaining you do about usworst? Paul (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) *That's* what I was looking for! Never noticed the slow download with my DSL connection <gloat> :-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) They never went anywhere. All the pics with "th" are thumbnails. There is an index at (URL) uses all the thumbnails but the stupid page takes forever to load with 53 thumbnails. Never did get back to figuring out why the page loads so slow. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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