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Re: Has anyone made an American 4-4-0 with BBB wheels?
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Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:14:50 GMT
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Yes, the piston and connecting rod design certain can seperate the men from the
boys (& women from the girls). In fact that's where most of my time was spent on
the Bumble Bee! And BTW thanks for the confession! :)
Here's a few pics and a few words:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/6849
SteveB
PS I hope you don't mind me posting my MOC on your thread!
In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
> steve barile wrote:
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> > Nice work Chris! Can you explain a little about your driver links. It looks like
> > the piston rod is static and that technic element slides along it...???
> >
> > SteveB
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> Thanks for the exclamation point, and, yep, you got the piston thing
> right. I wanted a round cylinder. In the picture that I was using, the
> cylinder looked like a cylinder with a box on top. I choose to emphasize
> the cylinder instead of the box. However, an axle cannot move freely in
> and out of the 2x2 rounds that I used for the cylinder. So, I decided to
> slide the drive rod on the piston rod. It's a cheat, but it is not an
> _obvious_ cheat :) If you look very closely at the technic elements, and
> think very hard about the sizes and shapes of those elements, you might
> come to realize that I did something very, _very_ bad :( I couldn't
> think of anything else, and boy that slope is slippery. Luckily, the
> NELUG guys still let me run it even though it is an unpure, modded
> abomination.
>
> > PS I just finished a 2-6-0 Mogul in Rio Grande Bumblebee livery (Med Orange,
> > Black & Gray). Pic to follow tonight.
>
> I look forward to seeing it.
>
> Chris
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> >
> > In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
> >
> > > In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Building an American 4-4-0 seems like the perfect use for the new BBB
> > > > wheels, anyone done it yet? (I plan to give it a go myself when I can
> > > > afford to get some BBB wheels to do it with :)
> > >
> > > Yep, and surprisingly if you google "American 4-4-0 LEGO" you get a bunch of
> > > hits. One is mine :)
> > >
> > > http://users.rcn.com/cjmasi/lego/trains/engines/american_4-4-0/american_4-4-0.html
> > >
> > > Chris
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| (...) Yeah, the men go home, but the boys dig deeper into their LEGO bins for just the right part :) (...) Ha ha, my thread. This is actually Jonathan's thread asking for examples of MOC's using Big Ben Bricks drivers. Sure, your design is a 2-6-0, (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Thanks for the exclamation point, and, yep, you got the piston thing right. I wanted a round cylinder. In the picture that I was using, the cylinder looked like a cylinder with a box on top. I choose to emphasize the cylinder instead of the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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