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Re: Monorail fleet - to dispel a vicious rumour ...
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Sat, 17 May 2003 18:16:24 GMT
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Hello
I've tried your joint-ball technique to connect a 4-cars monorail train. It
looked to work just fine, but suddenly, the last or front car would come out
of a turn, flip and bring with it the whole train. Disaster! 13 Minifigs
died. Each time I tried.
The ball joint is almost perfect, but unlike the monorail joint, it allows
rotation. The monorail joint allows only up-down and left-right movement.
When my train come of a turn, either the last or front car would react in
the wrong way to the pressure. Did this ever happen to you in your testing?
Do you have a solution?
My first attempt failed because I had not sacrificed a stud in the female
socket. I did so, then it worked fine until the rotation caused it to fall
aside. After reading the whole thread, I realized that the female socket
1-stud-sacrifice is a universal situation, so I'm glad I came out with the
same solution as every one else. The only solution I can up up for my
rotation problem involves rubber-bands between cars to prevent them to
rotate, but before I try this, I prefer to see if I missed something.
Terry
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| "Terry Prosper" <t@rotule.qc.ca> wrote in message news:HF1MrC.1DJA@lugnet.com... (...) It (...) out (...) testing? (...) This has never happened to me so I haven't needed a solution. The only issue I know of is the inability to push through (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I had intended to reply to this thread a while back when it first came up but got busy and forgot to do so. ;-) I have built a number of multi-car monorail trains over the past few years and learned a number of things along the way. I first (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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