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Subject:	Re: First Third Party product for the LEGO(r) Trains market?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:40:25 GMT
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One more followup from Zonker, with pictures - - - I've spent the evening jousting with bad bits on my hard disk, so no progress on the web page tnight (it's only half-ready...) BUT, I did take some more pictures, based on the discussions here. Most are 'looking down the rail' at the cleaning roller, and a LEGO train motor, to get an idea how far down the cleaning pad reaches. By the way, the LEGO 9-volt track rail head only reaches down 1/16" of an inch, while the rail is 0.2" tall (more then 3/16ths of an inch). Pictures 430 and 434 show the car from above and from the side. Pictures 506 and 507 show good details of the track/motor points of contact. Pictures 508, 509, 510 show the cleaning pad. The pictures are posted at: http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13430.JPG http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13434.JPG http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13436.JPG http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13447.JPG http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13451.JPG http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13452.JPG http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13453.JPG http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13504l.jpg http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13504l.jpg http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13506l.jpg http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13507l.jpg http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13508l.jpg http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13509l.jpg http://www.baylug.org/zonker/Centerline/AUT13510l.jpg Dick Webster (Centerline) has given me permission to post a couple of his documents as well, for those interested... The Centerline L-Gauge product instruction (MS Word doc) is posted at http://www.baylug.org/iltco/Centerline-LGauge.doc. A good description of the research Centerline folks have done about why and how tracks get dirty, and about cleaning methods can be read in another MS Word doc at http://www.baylug.org/iltco/Centerline-Method.doc. If the computers play nice (and if I can stay awake), I should be able to make some progress on the web page tomorrow night. -Z-

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		Re: First Third Party product for the LEGO(r) Trains market?
I had the same thought. Here's a few more I did last night of the point at which the motor's wheel touches the rail. They're a bit closer. (URL) surprised at how small the point of contact is, but it does explain the incredible reliability of (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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		First Third Party product for the LEGO(r) Trains market?
Pretty exciting news! This is posted on behalf of BayLTC's David (Zonker) Harris, with his permission (and request to so post), who related the following to me: - - - - My home machine has lost the cookie to post to LUGNET, and Todd's on a bus to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org) !

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