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Re: 8-wide "Hogwart's Express" using Big Ben wheels
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:40:41 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
> I haven't even started planning my 4-6-2, but I have been thinking about
> how I will do the drivers. Currently, I am thinking that I will loosely
> connect the middle wheels to the drive rods using a techinic peg/axel
> (part #3747), so the middle wheels connection can move in an out of the
> drive rods (or in and out of the wheel). I am also hoping that I can
> come up with a design that will allow the inside middle wheel (inside on
> a curve) to move inward in a turn an spring back out on a straight
> without changing the position of the outside wheel.
Now that is inspired genius! You wouldn't really have to connect the middle
wheels to the rods at all though, which may make it easier. The possibility is
there for adding skirts to the hundreds of 'Mallards' that are about to
appear...
I can see the discussion of techniques to do this getting as heated as the one
about point motors... :-)
P.S. I didn't realise my reply to David Koudys had only gone into /rltToronto.
What I said was for polarity switches, you can just stick the tip of a classic
space 4-stud long antenna into the axle hole, and they'll operate without
latching. You can then put a rubber band along just in front and behind the
antennae to make them auto-centre.
Jason Railton
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| (...) I bought two sets of drive wheels from Ben. Four red ones for my American 4-4-0, which I just finished (less one black macaroni... grrr), and 6 black wheels for eventually making a 4-6-2. I haven't even started planning my 4-6-2, but I have (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.trains)
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