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Re: big spoked wheels
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 28 Apr 2002 02:09:45 GMT
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"Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:Gv8yEE.L3J@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Saskia van Doesburg writes:
> > A few questions...
> > The big red spoked wheels you sometimes see in trainmodels, are they from
> > set 396 http://guide.lugnet.com/set/396 ?
> > Is it possible to use these wheels on 9V ?
> > Which other sets contain those wheels?
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> Set 390, an old Cadillac, comes with five large red spoked wheels. I • assume
> they are the same but am not sure because I've never seen spoked wheels • close
> up on a train set before.
>
> Maggie C.
The spoked wheels in 396 are indeed the same as those in 390. They also
appeared in white in 391 (http://guide.lugnet.com/set/391_1). I am lucky
enough to have eight of them, all originated from the 194 Family set
(http://guide.lugnet.com/set/194) which had four of them in red.
About a year ago a thread popped up in lugnet.trains regarding metal rims
that someone in Germany had fabricated that snapped over these wheels. See
this: http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=11170
I purchased eight of these rims and they work great - they snap right on as
advertised.
Here is a picture of a train I built when I first received them but never
finished:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=148813
I say it isn't finished because the front end is too light and it derails
pretty easily. I used it as a static display during our last show a few
weeks ago.
There were also some larger (but not as large as the big spoked wheels)
wheels during the 12v era.
http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?Set=5071-1
Hope this helps.
Mike
--
Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
http://www.ncltc.cc - North Carolina LEGO Train Club
http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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| Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: Gv9A2A.L8p@lugnet.com... (...) from (...) See (...) as (...) not to forget set 395 from 1976 with white wheels and 329 from 1968 with red wheels. If you never had the chance to study (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Set 390, an old Cadillac, comes with five large red spoked wheels. I assume they are the same but am not sure because I've never seen spoked wheels close up on a train set before. Maggie C. (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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