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| Hi guys, I just put on brickshelf some pics of wish-lego-produced-them rails. These images are made from Autocad 14 and exported as bitmap images,then converted to gif images with Photo Editor. (URL) you can see 4 different curves. They all cover a (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) This would be so cool... just the 56 would already be nice, but having 88 and 104 , either as replacements or additional, would be awesome! Only problem I see is that we'll need a bigger hall at LEGOWorld 2003 for the train layout ;) (...) Now (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Might as well have done 72 as well, ne? (...) Very nice work! I especially liked the switch! (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Wow those would be fantastic. Most of us have more curves than we know what to do with, but those would certainly get us salivating. Dream rails indeed, they are delightful. Nice work. -Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) What did Brad say the molds would cost? -Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) He didn't quote prices, but given how he was talking about the need to make huge quantities for them to earn something, and my own experience in making molds, I'd say at least 50,000 for the 2 curves, not including the assembly stuff to put (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| ...than why not Atlas or some other model RR company produce "L" gauge track. Why not one of us? Why not hand spike "L" gauge track using model RR materials? Lots of out-of-the-box ideas here... The construction criteria for LEGO elements with the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Good idea - though are we a big enough market even for that? Either way, as Jason S says, they need to get Lego trains in model rail shops. Jason J Railton (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Interesting idea, but wouldn't that require them to have all the ABS particle-thingys? Though with only 1 color, it might still be workable. Atlas has already made two other scales of track and has been around for over 50 years (I think), so (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| Very nice work Gianluca: Couple of comments: I don't know how big of an issue it is to people, but one element that needs to be considered is tie spacing. According to my numbers, your 56 stud radius, 22.5 degree curve track has about 2.40 studs of (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) FEBRUARY ?? Geez! While I appreciate wanting a nice live audience for a public unveiling, couldn't you at least snap a few pics for us and whip up a brief post? I've been wondering if these kind of mods have been tried before, and what methods (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| In (...) I _think_ that it can be done for rather less than what Lego is quoting, but it would require some special conversion pieces. IIRC, in the mid 80's, GEM (a UK model railway co) and the TT society made a track base mold for TT for ~1000 UKP. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Jewler's saw, dremel, 5 min epoxy resin, small (18 watt Antax in my case) soldering iron, 60/40 solder, liquid flux, a largeish smoothish file (I use a 10" lathe file that is handy...you want a reasonably smooth file, not a bastard (1), a 2x8 (...) (22 years ago, 9-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| gianluca morelli <moebiusring@yahoo.it> wrote in message news:20021107225839....hoo.com... (...) [snip] (...) European cars are shorter than 26 meters, they go by the UIC-505 standard, which sets a maximum lenght of 24 meters (and standard height (...) (22 years ago, 9-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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