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(...) there is one trick you can use to get this to work reliably. The thing you need is to use carbon spray on the wheels so that a resistor of a few M-ohms is created. This will draw enough current for the detector circuit to work. product is (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: "Super Friction Specials" - Question at Jake / TLC
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> It doesn't answer the rest of your questions, but at least it looks like the new sets are okay: (URL) C. (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | 8-wide Gondola instructions!!
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I've created instructions for my 8-wide gondola: (URL) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | high speed train on MOC pages
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I finally got around to taking daylight pictures of my high speed train set. Visit (URL) welcome to write a review (of any of my creations). Many more to come in the next weeks (mainly train and town). Paul (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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ENTER AND WIN A $5000.00 GRAND PRIZE ===...=== The Shrine in Belleville, IL is hosting a Christmas LEGO® exhibition featuring LEGO® toy model displays representing the spiritual aspect of Christmas through the eyes of a child. for more information (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: MichLTC - LEGO Roadshow - Chicago, IL
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(...) Layout looks terrific! And from the photos, looks like you guys had GREAT weather! Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liason LEGO Community Development (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
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MichLTC had a great time doing the roadshow this past weekend. Featuring one of our most unqiue layout plans yet, we had 2 trains running, 5 city blocks and a small area for misc MOCs. (4 URLs) MichLUG.org> -Jason Spears Webmaster (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mi, FTX)
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(...) have an 18-inch electrical lead and contain an internal resistor to protect the reed switch from excessive current in case it is inadvertently wired up to an RCX motor output. The sensor can be attached to the railbed of any straight piece of (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Odd - I don't - can you tell more? (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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Reed switches have been used. One discussion: (URL) a discussion on various applications: (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Has anybody come across a consistent way of sensing the presence of a LEGO train on a specific section of track? I was just wondering, cos I came across (URL) this site> and thought it'd be fairly easy to create controllers like these with RCXs (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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CAUTION on the 2nd link -- I got a few nasty pop-up ads... (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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Hi all! The Danish ambassador asked me to set up a train layout in Valga, when the EUROBUSS was there on August 16th, 2003. The original idea came from the Danish Cultural Inistitute. They should show some Danish things as a part of they tour. And (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Jeroen de Haan wrote: Hi Jeroen, as "usual" you have done a great job on these CAD models. I have downloaded them at once. Again it is really hard to tell from first view if they are made by real LEGO® bricks of just virtual ones. (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp)
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Riley wrote: [snip] Hi Mark, I think you gave a very clear description about the wheel sets working principle. (...) That is right. For early nineties wheel blocks these where the only spots with friction as well (even without (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| | "Super Friction Specials" - Question at Jake / TLC
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Hi all! Over the past weeks we had to read nearly daily about "super fcriction wheel sets". I am glad that most of the AFOLs around have saved their humor on this topic and take it just as a minor drawback. On the other hand we will get the new (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) Hi Jeroen, I corrected your link here above. Well, as allways, verry nice renderings of two beautiful locomotives. Nice models from our Japanese Lego fan. Especially the front lights (black plate)from the EH500.I need to take a close look at (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp)
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(...) layout. It (...) not (...) before (...) huge, (...) stopped (...) several (...) wheels. I (...) sticky (...) Being something of a newbie to trains, all of my wheel sets are the new Super Friction Specials (nice phrase, that :-). After making (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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Hi all, Sometimes simple thing can take a while and/or cost more engery than one hoped for. Today I am proud to present you two posters of MOCs by Higasi Nakano. If you haven't seen his work, I'll advise you to take a look at his Brickshelf pages ( (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: LDCC and RCX gizmos (long)
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(...) snip! (...) I believe that Mark is already working on a couple of different ways to control more than 9 DCC decoders on a layout. As he does, I will extend Full Throttle to support the new features. (No pressure, Mark!) The same thing goes for (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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