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Re: First draft of my gravel silo MOC
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:14:04 GMT
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"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message
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> Recently I finished a hopper car design that can be unload with a set of
> spring loaded doors on the bottom. The idea is that I'm going to have a • RCX
> be able to unload the cars if they are full, and fill them if they're • empty.
> I'm currently working on a scale using a rotation sensor and some old 4.5
> track to figure out if the hoppers are loaded. If so I'll dump the • contents
> into a bin under the scale (thus the reason for the 4.5 track).
I'm very curious about the hopper design! I have yet to build a few hopper
cars for the loading/unloading station and I'm still looking for a good
design (also with automation in mind).
> At this weekends NGLTC show I'll see if I can get some good shots of the
> hopper cars and their unloading doors. Soon I hope to get some shots of • the
> rest of the gravel/grain/coal loading/unloading station.
Looking forward to the pictures!
-Frank
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 | | Re: First draft of my gravel silo MOC
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| (...) Me too!. Having been the first to travel down this road, I expect you will have some difficulty (at least, I _think_ I was the first to do a automated load/unload sequence...I know someone did it with the Technic Control System 2 before me, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: First draft of my gravel silo MOC
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| Nice job Frank. It's funny that I've been working on a simlair project. Recently I finished a hopper car design that can be unload with a set of spring loaded doors on the bottom. The idea is that I'm going to have a RCX be able to unload the cars (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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