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Re: Steam engine complex wheelbases (was: BBB wheels sales)
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:45:57 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote:
> Another alternative, if you're not using coupling rods (or if you only couple
> the front two axles), is to let the back two drivers of your engine move around,
> and lock them to the front two wheels of the tender. That's how my Castle Class
> engine works. Although on that, this gives you a moving floor in the cab which
> isn't save for minifigs.
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> Jason Railton
Jason, I may try something along these lines. I want the back two wheel sets of
the tender to be a 9v motor. My next experiment was to connect the front truck
in the tender to the rear set of drive wheels. From what you say this should
work.
I like the idea of magnets and pins to connect the 2 togather. The cab sits high
enough that I think I can avoid the sliding floor-o-doom.
The current build has a 7w cab and tender.
Even if this works out, I'll pick up a pair of the blind drivers when I can.
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| (...) Thanks for letting that slip Ben. I presume the other one is still a secret though... I did just work out a way of getting a six wheel set around a corner, with connecting rods. It allows one of the middle wheels to fold in on the inside of a (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.trains)
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