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Re: wheelset ideas
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:01:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:
As you can see this model sits rather high on the trucks, so I've
figured out a way to use the wheels without frames:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=14325

This creates a truck that is perfect in height for my needs (saves about
1-2 plates) and allows my design to handle curves quite well.  However,
this design is lacking the sideframes on the trucks.  I haven't been
able to come up with a good solution to this-- Any Ideas?

Hi Chris,

I have done a solution for this a while ago, because I needed red sideframes:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=122132

I used the tube from for e.g. 7171 (or flex-system) to connect the frame. But
you might get into trouble with your height problem again if you doit the same
way....

Kind Regards,

Ben


BTW:
I have published a 9V wheel without sideframes nearly exactely 2 years ago
(still remember that day as if just a week went past since then):
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/pi412.jpg
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun



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  Re: wheelset ideas
 
(...) page available on Brickshlef? Can you email me the files? Thanks, Paul Sinasohn (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)

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I was taking a break today from analysing some data and I started working on a longstanding problem I've been having with a model. I'm trying to build a 5-unit spine car, based on a previous design of mine ( (URL) you can see this model sits rather (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)

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