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Re: Carriage roof and underframe
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:43:48 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Stuart Jones wrote:
> Some design ideas for a carriage roof, trying to get those shallow curves
> without using slopes or stacked plates:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1088848
A pretty obvious design, but I don't recall anyone doing it!. Everyone got hung
up on the digger buckets http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=19728
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> As with wagons, I think steam-age carriages need to have some underframe detail,
> here's another design idea:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1088845
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> Views of the underside (with battery boxes in the middle) and components:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1088846
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1088847
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> The length of the underframe can be adjusted by using different combinations of
> 4L bars, 4H antennae and 6.6L bars
The best truss rod design i have seen, will have to experiment.
(BTW this design is called a queen post truss, with only one vertical and no
horizontal it is a king post truss)
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> I've been out of Lego for nearly 2 years due to various reasons, good to be
> dabbling again. Hi to everyone in the Brickish Association and the NBLTC.
Welcome back
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> Stuart
Tim
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| Some design ideas for a carriage roof, trying to get those shallow curves without using slopes or stacked plates: (URL) view of the components: (URL) you 8-widers, just add 2-stud wide bricks down the middle. As with wagons, I think steam-age (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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