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Re: Permanent outdoor train
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:27:11 GMT
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James Powell wrote in message ...
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> > LEGO tracks are not fit for outside usage and as far as I know there is no
> > standard gauge close enough to use instead. Duplo trains will do better
> > though :-)
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> Eric, is this hard earned experence?
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> Please, share the details. I'd think that they would be OK outside...what
> happenes? do they rust? I don't think that they'd melt/distort too much • over
> a year or so...Anyone got any real experence?
Sorry, no actual experience. I just *expect* them to rust from rain and
distort from sun heat.
If you don't care wasting your track over a year or so it may do ofcourse.
Eric
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| You could do what LL USA did-- lay your own track. Make it the same gauge as 9v, and use O scale rails. Points might get tricky, but I think that would be the way to go. -John (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| In article <FEEoGy.50y@lugnet.com>, Eric Brok <brok@fcjsvc.hvu.nl> writes (...) I also have no experience of outdoor models, but I think the main problem is the plastic, and the rail joints. The plastic will suffer in the sun, and the joints will be (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Eric, is this hard earned experence? Please, share the details. I'd think that they would be OK outside...what happenes? do they rust? I don't think that they'd melt/distort too much over a year or so...Anyone got any real experence? All that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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