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Re: a new carrier...almost
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Tue, 21 Sep 1999 03:38:17 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@spamcakeUSWEST.NET
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Christopher Masi wrote:
> I almost made a car carrier, but I ran out of parts.
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> The car carrier is here
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> http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/trains/rolling%20stock/rolling_stock.htm
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> the homepage is
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> http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/
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> Comments appreciated!
> Christopher
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> The text describing the car:
> This is probably a never to be finished
> model. The original plans called for a double-deck
> car carrier which would have made the model
> 13 bricks tall, not including trucks. But I
> estimate that it would have taken 350 to 364
> 1x4 gray plates. I scaled back so I could test
> some design ideas. The baseplate is 2 plates
> thick, the first level is 5 bricks high (needs
> to be 1 plate higher), and a second level,
> only 1 brick in height, was added to test the
> concept. The short form of the model uses
> 210 1x4 plates; I built one side of the model
> (other side). (I have enough plates for 3
> more gray sections, but why bother...) The cool
> thing about this model is that it is see
> through just like the real ones. I used loops of bare
> 20 gauge solid copper wire so I could snap
> the bricks together without completely
> snapping the bricks together. There are
> spaces between the plates! The other wierd thing
> about this model....(drum roll
> please)...cars do not fit in 4 wide spaces (door handles get in
> the way) so a 6 wide train car is not wide
> enough (drums getting louder) but a 7 wide
> base creates a 5 wide interior.... THIS IS A
> SEVEN WIDE TRAIN CAR (when will the
> insanity stop)
That *is* insane... that you stopped at seven and didn't keep going to
eight!!{:^D I like the car; are you sure there is no "all LEGO" solution to
creating that cool gap in the 1x4 plates? How about flowers jammed up under
the plates?
-John
> . Here is a picture of a car
> inside the car carrier; of course, when I took the
> picture I forgot to make certain that
> trouble causing door handle was visible. With 7 wide
> trains the trucks must be attached in a
> nonstandard manner, but the solution is straight
> forward. Stick the studs IN the tubes and
> the hole is back in the middle again. (Of course
> round plates are not necessary and neither
> is the large square hole in the floor; blame it
> on laziness and a lack of 2x2 plates.)
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