 | | Re: Round parts on the side of ... (was Re: LEGO SW Haildire Droid will cost....
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(...) personaly i dont think they will be large enough to build a rotary. this is mainly because the center point of the rotation gear is also in the same position as the couplers. this is at least in modern rotary dumps. a good solution might be to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Round parts on the side of ... (was Re: LEGO SW Haildire Droid will cost....
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(...) Right. Has to be else you have to decouple. However if the guestimated height someone posted elsewhere in the thread is correct it will be plenty high for 6 wide trains. 8 widers might be out of luck though. (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Rotary dump for hopper cars (was: Round parts on the side of...)
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(...) If the circle ends up being a bit too small to center the couplers, couldn't you build a different hopper that has the couplers a brick or two higher? Sure, it would only work with other hoppers with the same coupler design, but most of the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Definitely. I bet you could even find a prototype for it somewhere if you hunted hard enough. Perhaps body mounted rather than truck mounted would be necessary to avoid somewhat silly looking trucks, though. (...) Yep. They're called unit (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Round parts on the side of Hailfire Droid UPDATE
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Hey all, While browsing Brickshelf recently I happened to fall upon a folder with detailed photos of the new Hailfire Droid.(URL) Along with the other photos Simon Bennett was kind enough to photograph the new rotation gear against a baseplate. (...) (22 years ago, 23-May-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.starwars)
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