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Re: Rotary dump for hopper cars (was: Round parts on the side of...)
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:43:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan writes:
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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.
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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.
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> 8 widers might be out of luck though.
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 trains I see with rotary hoppers are nothing BUT hoppers!
Looks like an interesting element, for sure - it will be interesting to see
what people can come up with using it!
JohnG, GMLTC
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