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Re: Brickish Railways newcomer
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:55:10 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Simon Bennett writes:
> Hi
> 
> Despite the fact that I play with trains all day at work I have finally
> given up resisting the lure of Lego ones.  I have just taken delivery of a
> Small My Own Train and a wagon plate kit so I can look into how it all works
> and I have a few questions that I hope someone can help me with.
> 
> I've built the loco but there are no instructions for the wagon plate and I
> can't seem to work out how the coupling piece should be mounted.  To be
> correct it ought to mount to the base but there is no way of doing that.  Is
> it supposed to go on the bogie?
> 
> How are you supposed to use the 2x6 plate to fix the wheelsets together?
> I've put it so there is a 2 stud gap between the wheelsets and then put the
> bogie plate on top.  It looks inelegant and there needs to be another plate
> on top of the 2x6 to make it secure.  Am I missing something?

Just take a look at the instruction of 2126. It works with the same design,
that you should use.

http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/2000/2126/2126-03.jpg

Kind Regards,

Ben

My homepage:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/ben_abs.html
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  Re: Brickish Railways newcomer
 
(...) Thanks Ben, that's really useful and thank you for taking the time to find it for me but... aaargh that's horrible. I hope no-one in .trains takes this the wrong way but buffer beams are attached to the solebar of a rail vehicle, not the bogie (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)

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  Brickish Railways newcomer
 
Hi Despite the fact that I play with trains all day at work I have finally given up resisting the lure of Lego ones. I have just taken delivery of a Small My Own Train and a wagon plate kit so I can look into how it all works and I have a few (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)

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