 | | BayLTC @ Great Train Expo, San Jose
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| My pictures from this past weekend's BayLTC layout at the Great Train Expo in San Jose are now up: Flickr: (3 URLs) entry: (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
| | | | | Re: Building the Christmas Train 2006: Set 10173 - brief report & pics
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| (...) Like Jordan I found that triple wheel sets work fine as long as the wheels are close together. However, with my (URL) breakdown crane>, I found that it did increase the rolling resistance somewhat in corners, so your trains will slow down more (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Building the Christmas Train 2006: Set 10173 - brief report & pics
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| (...) I haven't tried it with this set, but I did try a six-wheeled version of the locomotive from 4563. It worked fine, as long as the wheels were one set right after the other. If there is any additional spacing between, one runs into problems as (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Building the Christmas Train 2006: Set 10173 - brief report & pics
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| (...) :-) :-) I guess it's supposed to be an alternative for the well known toy-bear. A toy-Christmas-bunny. :-) About the triple wheels: I haven't tried that yet, I was fully occupied with building, inventoring, making postings in 3 languages etc. (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: IR train base alternative
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| (...) Ondrew, how did you handle the voltage drop through the bridge rectifier? Did you measure any top-speed dropout? Curious, ---Will (20 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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