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Re: Wire routing
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:28:23 GMT
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> It looks like there could be a need for me to get my Dremel out and try my
> hand at modifying train motors.  I have an idea about trying to make the
> wire go up through the center peg on the top of the motor.  I'd like to do
> that without opening the train motor, so my first attempt will be to cut a
> groove from the electric plate end to the middle post on the top and use a
> LEGO wire.  Don't know how that's going to affect the technic pin if I cut
> away too much on one side to fit the wire inside without threading that
> wire through a small hole in the side of the pin instead and then snapping
> it back into the 2x2 electric connector.


Oh crap, that won't work.  There's simply no way to get a 2x2 electric
connector through a technic hole without quantum physics.  I guess I could
attach a 2x4 technic plate and leave it on the train pin.

Rob



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  Re: Wire routing
 
(...) Rob You could do what I did in my track pickup experiments, cut the wire, and use a c100x2 connector to re-attach them later. The C100 sockets just fit through a technic pin. (2 URLs) The picture shows a pair if sockets without the plastic (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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  Re: Wire routing
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IAn1Ew.21DE@lugnet.com... (...) Dang, and I wasn't going to make a post.... Oh well, It looks like there could be a need for me to get my Dremel out and try my hand at (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)

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