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Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:48:24 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile wrote:
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> Please do not regard this as a complaint, I'm just curious about some principal
> design choices:
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> Why has the idea of sizing an opening allowing the user to insert a 1x1 round
> plate covering the axle hole, been obmitted?
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> see: http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=21448
> and: http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=21370
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> Has a counterweight been obmitted because it's intended as posible "click-on"
> extra part in the future?
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> With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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 would expect.
As I said, all my guesses.
I can live with these omissions although it certainly would be nice if the NEXT
wheel incorporates those (hehe... haven't actually got these in any quantity and
I'm talking about the next one!)
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 | | Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
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| (...) Adding the counterweight means taking out more material of the molds, so that should be possible although costly indeed... the recessed area for the 1*1 plate unfortunately is the opposite :( Hope to see some of these wheels "live" soon so to (...) (21 years ago, 8-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Steam Drivers by Big Ben Bricks!!!
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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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