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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 (...) (22 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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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