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Re: First Third Party product for the LEGO(r) Trains market?
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lugnet.trains
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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
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> 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) ...
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> 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?
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> 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!).
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> (Or is the flange picking up power from the inside top edge of the rail
> rather than the side?)
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> Cheers
>
> Richie Dulin
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