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Re: a trick to make NEW trainwheels work - PICTURE SERIE
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Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:11:24 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Klaas H. Meijaard writes:

PS, IMPORTANT...
Yoy CAN finish the modification after inserting (snapping) the first
bush-cutoff.
The wheels run fine than, but when you run your train at high speed the
wagons tilt a bit too much.

While this might not work so well if done on ALL wheels, doing it on only one
wheelset/wagon or one/bogie it might actually improve running qualities. You'd
get the compensated suspention model railroaders always try to build into their
rolling stock. Will need to test this, most of my rolling stock is still in my
car since I've been doing hardly anything but sleeping since LEGOWorld ;)
--
Jan-Albert van Ree



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  Re: a trick to make NEW trainwheels work - PICTURE SERIE
 
Taking the low road... I was thinking how to shave off some plastic from the wheel flange. And it's not that big of a deal the roundness of the flange isn't as critical as the the roundness of the wheel tread. But then it hit me, using a small (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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  a trick to make NEW trainwheels work - PICTURE SERIE
 
Hi all, Everything is said about this bad wheel molds, I hope (and EXPECT) Lego will make new molds in short time!! More interesting: HOW DO WE GET OUR WHEELS TO WORK PROPERLY??? .... without to much work. :-) Please check out the pics I uploaded, (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)  

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