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Re: 2 axel motorised truck with 3 stud center wheel spacing
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod
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Date:
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Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:42:23 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Rob Hendrix wrote:
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“Mathew Clayson” mathew_impact1@yahoo.com wrote in message
news:ID1o4G.1ErE@lugnet.com...
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A Motorised 2 axel truck with 3 stud wheel spacing. This is a custom
modified 9v train motor.
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Holy crap Mat! I never really thought of doing that. That’s great! To
combat jittering on uneven tracks and the like, you could always add a
second set of pickup wheels on the other end of the railcar.
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Hi Rob, I figured you of all people would like this.
I may add the seceond set of pickup wheels, or a second moterized truck, and
wire them togather. Right now I’m usng the spring-to-axel methode to get my
power from the metal wheels. If I switch to wipers on the back of the wheel, I
could use 4 metal wheels in one truck.
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I want to do the following things:
1) add wheels to the 9v train motor for a 6 wheel truck
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So far I’ve only done one of these, I need a grey one for my next project.
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2) make power pickups for normal wheelsets for accessories in railcars
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I got a few of the metal wheels made a while back, but not enough to part some
out. As a stop gap to experiment with, I used some old Lionel O guage wheels to
test with. These are a bit thicker, like the old LEGO wheels, but have a nearly
identical profile otherwise. I ground mine thinner on a belt sander, and used
thin brass tube to shim the larger hole onto the LEGO axelrod.
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3) powered handtruck! with moving handles!! modified nba players would work
nicely here...
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Huh? And I thought I was getting exotic. I want to see this when it’s done.
BTW, small toy cars are a great souce for gears. The cars with the flywheel type
energy storage seem to work best for conversion. I found a few at the dollor
store, and I think they will be ideal for a single axel motor truck.
Mat
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