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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 04:13:45 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan writes:
> Kinda funny that we both wrote the same thing at the same time isn’t it. Too
> bad spell check slowed me down. =)
> OnDrew
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
> >
> > 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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