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Re: big spoked wheels
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:07:09 GMT
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Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
Gv9A2A.L8p@lugnet.com...
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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.
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> > Maggie C.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> I purchased eight of these rims and they work great - they snap right on • as
> advertised.
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> Here is a picture of a train I built when I first received them but never
> finished:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=148813
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> 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.
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> There were also some larger (but not as large as the big spoked wheels)
> wheels during the 12v era.
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> http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?Set=5071-1
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> Hope this helps.
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> Mike
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> --
> 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
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 the wheels in detail it might
be useful to know that they weren't actually designed for rails. They are
the spoked versions of the old large wheels with 12 studs and normally had
tyres. As for some of the mocs - some people use axle/wheel systems from
other products like Reinhard Beneke's playmobile solutions. I don't know
how well that works though.
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| One of the sets numb4ered 252 also had 4 of these wheels. I think I've got about 40 by now. Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (23 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| "Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:Gv8yEE.L3J@lugnet.com... (...) assume (...) close (...) The spoked wheels in 396 are indeed the same as those in 390. They also appeared in white in 391 ((URL) I am lucky enough to have (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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