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Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
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Date: 
Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:40:10 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile wrote:

Please do not regard this as a complaint, I'm just curious about some principal
design choices:

Why has the idea of sizing an opening allowing the user to insert a 1x1 round
plate covering the axle hole, been obmitted?

see: http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=21448
and: http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=21370

Has a counterweight been obmitted because it's intended as posible "click-on"
extra part in the future?

With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.



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  Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
 
(...) My guesses are that this tooling has been under development for some time, certainly well before Ben's analysis was posted... so these ideas were not known at the time of development. Redoing tooling at this point will add a lot of cost, I (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)

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  Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
 
Hi All, I just hung up with Ben Fleskes and he OK'ed the news article that is now on www.ILTCO.org! There is some more information about these drivers and several pictures too! Come have a look! SteveB ILTCO Pres (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains) !! 

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