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Hi Ben, many thanks for sharing this "new part". Your design is well thought-throw and it would be "THE" addition to train parts. Hopefully there will be someone somewhere reading your article who is able to bring this piece into reality? 1000grüße (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Counterweights were used on real steam engines to compensate the weight of the connection to the rod, so that the wheel would be in balance again. Without, or with incorrect counterweight, at higher speeds there would be a significant (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Other coasters (was Re: Nico Bestanpouri's roller coaster
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(...) descriptions at (URL) I need to update it with revisions since then - the pnltc site has most of the latest revisions incorporated. Also, it will be at BrickFest PDX in February if you want to see it in person (likely its last public showing). (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Great offer in TRU Den Haag (NL)
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Spotted today in TRU Megastores Den Haag: 4565 Freight & Crane Railway + 4548 Electric Train Speed Regulator EUR 99,- Duq (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
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(...) All right, I'm willing to risk some ridicule for not knowing this. What is the purpose of the counterweight? Is it to balance the load of the drive rod, so that the wheel never has to "lift" and weight, per se? What is the "weight" like? A (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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