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Re: Advice wanted
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:48:04 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, William R. Ward wrote:
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Here’s a crazy idea: how about using a black rubber band?
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That IS crazy. It will never work!
No, more seriously that’s actually pretty spiffy thinking. Figure out how to
route the band through the boiler and through the pilot and Bob’s your uncle.
One wrinkle though, there will be a tendency for the pilot to want to stay
centered if the band is taut enough on the straights to look like it’s a bar
rather than a droopy rope.... This may cause poor performance in turns or when
traversing switch points in the diverging direction.
But great idea!
++Lar
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| (...) How about a long rubber band that's connected both ends to the pilot, and through a hole of some kind in the boiler? So it can slide side to side? Or even 2 pieces of string joined but a short rubber band in the same configuration? This may (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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