To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.trainsOpen lugnet.trains in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Trains / 21247
21246  |  21248
Subject: 
Re: Stability of cars/rails?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:53:38 GMT
Viewed: 
1150 times
  
But the wobble is realistic in a way.  if you watch a slow moving train, rolling
along, it sways side to side a little bit, this is because it is almost
imppossible & un-needed to have the track PERFECTLY level, unless of course
you're speaking of high speed rail.  Lego track is closer to perfect then it
should be thus the wobble in the bogie plates recreates this...
Josh
Lcpl Baakko, USMC
(Yes I'm alive, & still building, NO I didn't go to Iraq)



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Stability of cars/rails?
 
(...) Agreed, and I even take advantage of the wobble in MTW-1003 to good effect, however in this case the original poster is looking for a jitter free way to do circular pans with a camera, so wobble is not his friend in this application. ++Lar (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Stability of cars/rails?
 
(...) They wobble a little, but if the track is level and you're going in a circle (not going straight part of the time) at a constant speed you may not get any wobble at all. Cars that use two trucks (and thus sit on bogie plates <part:4092> are (...) (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)

18 Messages in This Thread:



Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR