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Re: BBB wheels + availability?
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:32:05 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Teunis Davey wrote:
> Has anyone worked out how to get the push rods to work perfectly ??
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> On these combo's ,4 4 0 , 4 6 2 , etc ??
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> I've had a look ,at a real steam train, at a local park. And I found that the
> push rods are in the same position, on both sides.
I suggest that you look again as that's counter to my experience, every steamer
I have ever seen has the rods quartered. Is this a static model that maybe was
disassembled and incorrectly reassembled? Or are you being fooled by something
else?
> But ,in my lego versions they
> work better 90D apart. Is this what the counter balance on the wheels fixes in
> real life ? Or is just the downward weight on the wheels?
The counter balance is there to offset the weight of the rods, else the wheel
would want to rotate around its center of mass which, without it, would be off
center. So it should be on the opposite side of where the rod connects.
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| (...) Has anyone worked out how to get the push rods to work perfectly ?? On these combo's ,4 4 0 , 4 6 2 , etc ?? I've had a look ,at a real steam train, at a local park. And I found that the push rods are in the same position, on both sides. But (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains)
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