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(...) Most of it looks great, however like Manfred mentions, why no opening for the 1*1 round plate, and also it seems as if the hole for a driver rod is actually recessed instead of standing out, which makes it a lot harder to make a smooth running (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) No, I think it IS true. Try putting the race track on the outside of 2 32 stud baseplate road curves... (...) I think it was but I can't find it. Someone did this track, train track, mono track all alongside each other to see how it lined up. (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well that didn't take long! (URL) and read the current first news article. (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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They're not made yet. It's likely that they will be molded from pre-existing colors pallets. I don't know the pallet palette (that was fun to say), maybe Ben can answer that when he gets on line (which might be a couple days, he told me). SteveB (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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I just bought 2 cheap copies of 4588 Off Road Race Track (URL) a 48 x 48 baseplate 3 race track curves former a quarter circle that has ends 12 studs from the corners. I don't have any train track with me but I know 4 curve lengths form a quarter (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)
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How closely do the colors match with LEGO colors? (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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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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while I was walking the dog I thought about your post and actually said 'yay' out loud, much to the consternation of some passers-by! the only problem is that you have ruined one of my 'lottery winning daydreams' :) Tim (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I was tempted to mention that I fail to see the relevance of your social work occupashion sic to the topic at hand. Luckily, I resisted that urge. Thanks, -s (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Very similar... that raises some Q's, since Ben's design was 100% spot-on. (...) Sounds great! (...) Let's hope the Elf does int'l shipping and has enough supply to meet the demands of us trainheads :D Paypal loaded up and ready! (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I counsel patience... AND that you haunt the leading source of LEGO train information, you never know WHAT you might find there. NO promises, mind you. (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Durnitall. I knew I should have boldfacaed, underlined, and italicized the word "quantifying". (...) Show yourself, Elf, and accept our praises! -s (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm... A "little more information"... Hmmm... How to put this... How about, "Cheaper than I had expected", or "cheaper than what I had considered a 'fair price'"... I'll leave the actual dollar amount to the Elf, for whenever they're ready to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Could said Elf be coerced to provide a little more information quantifying the "very fair price"? I'd like to know whether I can pick them up with my weekly spending allowance, or whether I shuld put these on a Christmas list? VERY exciting (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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A friendly elf visited the GMLTC last night, and had real life copies of a new driver wheel, very similar in design to the proposed one discussed here in .trains for the last several days. Elf said I could post a notice about it... So I can say (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I would buy 12 axels, in all three colours !! Red , Black & Gray. Total 36 axels @ $10us each ??? = $360us ??? But, for me to spend that sort of money the design would have to be perfected. So that they work perfectly on 9v & 12v rails. And (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) It's hard to tell what a "fair" price is, because I have no idea what the tooling cost will be, nor how many of them can be realistically sold at which price point. I would like to buy three to six pairs of them, maybe more, but that depends (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I don't think that the fair price for an item that can be produced in almost unlimited quantity (and in fact will have to be produced in large quantity to create return on investment) can reasonably be compared to the price for a collector's (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The dir is our general VLC member dumping area. It's supposed to be for temporary stuff... But somehow it got linked in to a message. (Probably me not thinking.) That 404 is the standard for a RaQ server. TFM (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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