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Re: my first steam moc - 4-4-4 (wheel expirement)
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:20:23 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jerry Sievert writes:
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> this was my result:
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> http://www.q7.com/~jerry/photo/steam-4-4-4.jpg
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> http://www.q7.com/~jerry/photo/steamfront-4-4-4.jpg
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> again, this was mostly put together as a first test of my wheels. which
> failed, btw ;-) ... it handles points just fine, but sharp turns are deadly
> (may be able to handle shallow turns, but i dare not try, lest my wife get mad
> about too much lego in the living room <grin>).
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> anyways, my first steam moc.
Looks good, Jerry!
What, exactly, are those wheels? They almost look like black wagon wheels, but
I can't quite make them out. Are they LEGO?
As for turns ... what wheels are affixed rigidly to the chassis, and which can
rotate? I've found that, with working pistons, I'm always making the driver
wheels rigid with respect to the chassis, but I always have to mount the
leading and trailing wheelsets on turntables or bogie plates. I can't tell
from the pictures if you've done the same or not.
I'm still working on the LDraw model, and hope to get a lot more done on it
this weekend .. plus some improvements?
Keep up the good work. Now, how can we make use of those black wagon wheels
... ??
-s
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| (...) but (...) I think those are the LGB wheels, as I used them in this engine long long ago: (URL) I repat myself, but I would love to see similar ones by TLC in red and black. The Diameter and flange height are just perfectly fitting into all (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: my first steam moc - 4-4-4 (wheel expirement)
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| (...) i built a mounting system for the wheels, and put that on a bogie plate. since i didn't put pistons on, i had full rotation. my problem came in when the track noticed that the length of the engine was a bit too long. i had a small de-railment. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| i've been working on some new wheel ideas off and on for the past few months. seeing shaun sullivan's 4-4-4 inspired me to throw something together as a test, last night (in fact, it's fairly derivative of shaun's work). i worked from one of my (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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