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Re: Stability of cars/rails?
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:35:19 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Josh Baakko wrote:
> 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...

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



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  Re: Stability of cars/rails?
 
If you took the monorail and ran it at 4.5 volts (to slow it down), you might get a very wobble free ride..... but I haven't tested it. -Tom (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Stability of cars/rails?
 
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 (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)

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