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Re: O-Train
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:13:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jason Allemann wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile wrote:
> > I was wondering what kind of horizontal latitude your get from your rubber bands
> > when traversing uneven track conditions?
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> I'm not really sure what you're asking about here. Side to side play in the
> connection? Front to back range of motion?
I'm betting he's talking about what the connection does when it goes over a rise
or hump in the trackwork. Even if you didn't DESIGN hills in, you get them,
especially with large layouts.
Articulated cars are particularly vulnerable to issues with this, if the planes
that the two adjacent cars are in are no longer parallel, it may put stress of
some sort or another on the coupling if it wasn't engineered to withstand that.
++Lar (now down to 3 days to go in Singapore....)
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 | | Re: O-Train
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| Thanks Larry, you nailed it. I am talking about going over bumps and uneven tabels etc... SteveB (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: O-Train
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| (...) Ah yes, good points. I just threw together a small test loop with some intentional grades (2 plate per track slope) and some uneven transitions (pieces of cardboard under the track). The couplings seemed to perform well, but then I probably (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Cool, thanks. Glad you like it! (...) I'm not really sure what you're asking about here. Side to side play in the connection? Front to back range of motion? (...) As I mentioned in reply to Didier, I found your presentation very impressive. I (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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