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(...) LEGO® store. It was a great set to build. It has 4 train cars with good part selection. This set also has a lot of play ability. There are 3 vehicles to drive around and load the train with. I have not actually ran the train yet, as I dont (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Questions about doing a museum show
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Thanks everyone for replying with such great info and ideas. I'm a list person, so here's a list of some of what I've learned: - Best not to leave anything really fragile or difficult to rebuild out during the week when the museum staff will be (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Flex system hose
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(...) Thanks. I thought that might be the case. Hardware stores in the area I live in tend to be able to come up with just about anything you could want. I'll check it out. Thanks again, Jonathan (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Flex system hose
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(...) https://www.festo.com (choose your country, look at the products/catalog and find tubing and piping under "pneumatic connectors", specially "outside diemeter tubing") ...or any other pneumatic tube supplier. And they might have more than one (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) https://enep.festo.c...ustomer_us ...or any other pneumatic tube supplier. And they might have more than one color, too (in my xperience, I've seen blue, black, light gray and semi opaq white). There are softer ones, and l (18 years ago, 20-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've used 1/8" plastic tubing I found at a hobby shop, it is a bit stiffer than the Lego stuff but it works fine. It's only available in white, but you could probably paint it a different color. And since it's not 'official Lego', I have no (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello, Regarding the flex system hose that is used for hand rails and such on trains: Has anyone ever tried sourcing this elsewhere other than in lego sets? Might it be available at hardware stores? Thanks, Jonathan (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Factory Set: Checkerboard Boxcar
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(...) Thanks Steve! Being able to import LDraw files into LDD was a big part of this. I pretty much did all of the designing in MLCAD and used LDD more for checking part availability, checking for proper LDraw conversion, and quick prototyping and (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Factory Set: Checkerboard Boxcar
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(...) Hi Chris, Thanks! I'm really glad to hear you like it. Yes, the red plates in the LDD trains palette are sparse but luckily they had 4 x 6 red plates which were good enough for my 6-wide needs. You had a lot more area to cover in 8-wide. (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Dark Red Hogwarts (teasers)
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(...) HoMa, so good to hear from you! I would love nothing more than to attend 1000Steine-Land every year, but the bank account says otherwise;-) One day, though, I do hope to attend, and I will bring (2) suitcases full of MOCs:-) Hope you are (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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