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Re: First Third Party product for the LEGO(r) Trains market?
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Date: 
Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:58:29 GMT
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Kinda funny that we both wrote the same thing at the same time isn’t it. Too
bad spell check slowed me down. =)
OnDrew

> 
> As an occasional lurker in .trains and owner of only 4.5V trains myself, my
> knowledge of 9V trains is limited, so perhaps someone could correct me if
> I'm misunderstanding (or misremembering) ...
> 
> I thought that it was a fairly commonly held belief that cleaning 9V track
> didn't make much difference to performance. Is this still the consensus view?
> 
> Also, I thought that the advantage of 9V was that sprung flanges picked up
> the power from the side of the rail... so cleaning the tops of the rail
> wouldn't make much difference would it? (Except for nice, shiny rail, of
> course. But $104 seems expensive just for shiny rail!).
> 
> (Or is the flange picking up power from the inside top edge of the rail
> rather than the side?)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Richie Dulin



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(...) Oh well, at least neither of us will be flamed alone! But I reckon that your spell check time was wasted: "...except make the track shinny" Shinny? ;-) Cheers Richie (...) (24 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> As an occasional lurker in .trains and owner of only 4.5V trains myself, my knowledge of 9V trains is limited, so perhaps someone could correct me if I'm misunderstanding (or misremembering) ... I thought that (...) (24 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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