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Re: F unit Roof Shot: Flatter curve than you'd think
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 4 Mar 2002 01:18:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Josh Baakko writes:
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> > I thought this started about the roof to the locos, not the nameing!
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> True, but people, even people who claim knowledge levels such that they
> should know better, keep making this very grating mistake.
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> Back to the roof topic, I did some studying of prototype drawings and I
> think the curvature of the roof represents approximately 1/6 of a circle.
> It's hard to be precise since the end points aren't sharp, but are smaller
> radius filleted corners.
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> That means that even IF TLC did a 1/4 or a 1/2 round arc, it still wouldn't
> help, because, as J2 says, it's flatter than you'd think at first. J2's
> approximation at 8 wide, as it is now, is too flat though. At least to my
> taste. But it's clearly a matter of taste.
I think so too, it looks closer to a PA1 or something to that affect... I
think those new curved bricks, (1x6, 2 studs) would be great if it wern't
for the 2 studs, & 1x6 length... I'd love the curve for an S-2...
Josh
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| (...) True, but people, even people who claim knowledge levels such that they should know better, keep making this very grating mistake. Back to the roof topic, I did some studying of prototype drawings and I think the curvature of the roof (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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