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Re: Differences in Monorail Motor Couplers?
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:28:15 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Conrad Frank wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I hope this is the right place for this... if not, please let me know
> where to post this question. I also did a search in the newsgroups,
> but did not find anything about this.
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> While going through some of my monorail parts, I noticed that two of
> my monorail motors had "smaller" couplers than the other three. By
> smaller I mean that the area where the coupler engages the tongue of
> the monorail chassis was not as large as on my other motors. I have
> one more motor to check.
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> All of my couplers have the same number stamped on them, 2685.
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> Has this been discussed before, and if so, can someone point me to a
> link?
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> Any idea why there is a difference? Was there some problem, perhaps
> monorail cars coming uncoupled, that led to the change?
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> What is the meaning of life? How many roads must a man walk upon?
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> Thanks!
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> Conrad Frank
I have pictures of that difference:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=412532
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=412533
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=412534
As to why, I always thought it was the change from Space Monorail to Airport
Shuttle (which had larger cars).
HTH,
Clark
Isodomos.com - marking the difference in Lego parts
http://www.isodomos.com
Visit my Vintage Lego Parts pages, submissions always welcome:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=8642
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| (...) sizes of the monorail cars between the space and airport sets. I don't have an airport set, and have not tried to build the cars for it. Might just have to do that and see how the different couplers respond. Conrad (19 years ago, 28-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hello everyone! I hope this is the right place for this... if not, please let me know where to post this question. I also did a search in the newsgroups, but did not find anything about this. While going through some of my monorail parts, I noticed (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains)
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