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Re: a new carrier...almost
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Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:27:48 GMT
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I assumed that he removed the wire. And that it was used just for spacing???
SteveB
In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
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> Christopher Masi wrote:
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> > 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)
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> 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?
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> -John
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> > . 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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| Why seven not eight? I stopped at seven because I wanted it to fit in with the 6 wide standard; 7 is closer than 8. The copper wire is a building aid, and it is pulled out when each grating is finished. It took me a while to find something that was (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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