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Re: 4551 Crocodile improvements
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:55:40 GMT
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the nose is too light and too short. Extending it 6 or 8 studs helps the
looks and stability.
Matthew Greene
MSLTC
In lugnet.trains, Mario Ferrari writes:
> "Jan-Albert van Ree" <javanree@vanree.net> wrote:
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> > Over time I noticed that my 4551 crocodile engine wasn't running very
> > stable and would derail quite often at high speeds, specially when
> > running over points or when pushing a train.
> >
> > After some testing I discovered that the nose was too light and
> > "jumpy" so I experimented with some weight bricks. And now, here's the
> > result : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=24264
> >
> > You can hardly tell from the outside that there's a weight brick
> > inside at all. Only downside is that adding working lights is now next
> > to impossible (or you need to drop the rounded 2*4*2 brick inside) But
> > the engine runs a lot better, which IMHO is more important.
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> I did add both a weight brick three working lights, but had to modify a
> bit the design of the nose: only one grilled 1x2 brick per side, and one
> plate more in height:
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> http://www.marioferrari.org/crocodile/crocodile.html
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> Ciao
> Mario
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| (...) I did add both a weight brick three working lights, but had to modify a bit the design of the nose: only one grilled 1x2 brick per side, and one plate more in height: (URL) Ciao Mario (24 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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