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| Hi all, After discovering the hard way (by making an impossible model) that the current electric train motor model has a couple of major mistakes (the wheels are too small and the clips are too small and in the wrong place) I decided to make my own (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Seven wide Koef Shunter
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| (...) It has been brought to my attention that sadly the arches won't work. It seems that the electric train motor DAT is very incorrect (the wheels are too small and the hooks are too low). So if anyone was going to try it, please don't bother. (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Thoughts on Battery-powered IR-controlled trains
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| (...) Agreed, and even if your RCXs can tell each other "I sent XX speed signals to the train" there's no guarantee it received them. I would be surprised if the control doesn't have a "stop" button though. ROSCO (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: Thoughts on Battery-powered IR-controlled trains
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| (...) You've also got the problem that if they work like the volume control on a TV remote (which is likely) the signals are "speed up" and "slow down", not absolute speed values. Since you have no way of knowing whether the train received a (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: modding the new IR trains
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| (...) More like 4x10x~4, or so we've heard, mainly to house the electronics. So, you could do a 4-wide body, so long as it's the same colour as the baseplate! Jason Railton (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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