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Re: Center Beam lumber car
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Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:38:28 GMT
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That looks great Steve. Very impressive.
-Jason
In lugnet.trains, Steve Barile writes:
> By standing on the shoulders of giants I created a Center Beam lumber car.
> Clearly Jake McKee and James Mathis came up with the oval opening that
> inspired me to build this model. Some of the obstacles left to solve was,
> creating and mounting the center wall and centering the trucks on a 7 wide
> platform. The ropes are only decorations, not structurally needed.
>
> Creating the center wall:
> I used 2 - 1x8x2 arches to create each of the 5 oval opening. They are held
> together by inserting a 4 stud axle into either 1x1 "foot" of the arch (see
> http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=13611 for details). In order to space them
> properly I had to add plates and/or bricks and then a tile to the top of
> each arch.
>
> Mounting the center wall:
> The arch assemblies are seated on their sides in a 32 stud long channel
> created by 2 rows of 1x2 thin wall panels. They are held in place on the top
> by a row of alternating 1x2-1x4 90-degree brackets (used for car headlights
> and grills). This alternating row of brackets creates a nice 1 stud channel
> and can be strengthened on 3 sides.
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> Centering the trucks on a 7 wide platform.
> Trying to keep the deck of the train car as thin as possible made it tough
> to find a solution to centering the bogie. After many attempts a 1x8 technic
> plate with holes in the end stud positions worked the best.
>
> See CBeam1, CBeam2, CBeam3 at
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=773)
>
> SteveB
> PNLTC
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