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Has anyone made thier own weight bricks? My thought was to hollow out the bottom of a brick with a dremel, then fill it with BBs. And finally glue a plate across the bottom. This could be useful to add weight to some of my smaller train MOCs, where (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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(...) Yeah, I kinda figured that out on my own, thanks. I just felt it would be prudent to point out that I am not one of those people, so that I wouldn't be the subject of false assumptions. Well, no more than usual, at least... (...) Considering (...) (20 years ago, 12-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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(...) Correct! Muovinen is a Finnish adjective and it means "plastic". I just couldn't prevent myself using that transposition... (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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(...) Well, ok, not THAT hard: (URL) from THIS great reference: (URL) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks for the reminder, I forgot about that. So random single wheelsets won't impact this, only bridging from one wheelset to another within the motor (or if you connect motors to get better pickup performance as Mark Bellis does, across (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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(...) Many of us are more interested in the trains running (remember that the name of the group, after all, is not lugnet.electrical). The electrical stuff is just a way to get trains to do their thing, in my view and hence, less interesting. Others (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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(...) Eh, I'm more interested in the electrical puzzle than the trains running on it. Besides, I was considering the possibility that a motor might be set up with two input leads and two output leads that would cause skipped poles if only one pair (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote: SNIP (...) Hi Folks, For what it's worth, this is the layout w/ reversing loop I was playing with. As always, I'm limited in size to something that fits on the big kitchen table I use for train layouts. I (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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(...) Well yes, but not because the short switched track segment is displaced - the electrical routing is not done through that, but via contacts hidden inside the switch, which don't get displaced. The short is caused by the electrical pickup in (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Reversing Loop without Insulated Tracks
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(...) Neither. The electrical pickup on the train motor picks up power from both axles. So when one axle has traversed B to the short section of track, the power pickup will connect the outside rail right through the loop, shorting the controller. (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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