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Re: Ben's LEGO 4449 Daylight train.
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 7 Nov 1999 18:25:01 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ben Fleskes writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> <snip>
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> > How do you accomodate that? Or os there a sliding link somewhere in the
> > connection between the pilot truck and the drivers or the drivers and
> > the trailing truck that is not obvious?
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> There is a sliding joint between the forward pivot in front of the drive
> wheels that translates forward and back relative to the leading truck. Thus,
> when the train goes around curves, the joint slides out, and then comes back
> together when it enters the straights. This joint is two studs wide and about
> two plates thick. It fits in an opening two studs wide and about four plates
> tall. This allows the drive wheels to float up and down as the train goes
> over bumps and changes in incline.
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> Or put another way, without the body on the wheels, the leading truck can be
> slid completely away from the rest of the wheels.
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> Does that answer the question? I do not have a picture that shows the units
> apart from one another, so it is difficult to tell.
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> Ben Fleskes
> PNLTC
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> Long live six wide!
You talk about the trucks sliding forward and backwards. It seems to me that
the body would hinder this from happening due to the fact that it connects to
the the front and rear trucks via two stationary pins. Since the body doesn't
stretch what lets this occur? On the location of the body where it attaches to
the trucks did you use those white spring loaded pieces similiar to the ones
found on the crossing gates in 4559?
John Warren
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 | | Re: Ben's LEGO 4449 Daylight train.
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| In lugnet.trains, John Warren writes: <snip> (...) to (...) Correct. The trucks stay on the same pivot point at all times. The drive wheels simply move away(towards the back) from the front truck around the curves. There are no springs used (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Ben's LEGO 4449 Daylight train.
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| In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) There is a sliding joint between the forward pivot in front of the drive wheels that translates forward and back relative to the leading truck. Thus, when the train goes around curves, the joint (...) (25 years ago, 7-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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