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Re: Questions from a trains idiot
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Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:11:32 GMT
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johnneal@%nomorespam%uswest.net
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
<snip good advice>
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> > > Do I need one each of the Buffers, Magnets, and Couplers as well as the
> > > Wheelsets accessories for each car I wish to make? I assume this should be
> > > obvious, but I want to make sure of what I am looking at here...
> >
> > To hookup your cars you need to have magnet couplers. There are other designs
> > to connect cars (there was a discussion here about cars sharing a common wheel-
> > set for example) For cars to run on the track you would also need train stuff
> > like wheels, but from there on you can use whatever you like.
>
> More specifically. If you are not building exotic designs, what you need
> still depends on what you are making. For a two axle (dinky euro car as
> I like to refer to it) you need one each of the wheels pack (it comes
> with two axles worth) and the buffers/couplers pack (it comes with two
> couplers). If you are building a 4 axle (american freight or a smaller
> passenger) you will need two packs of the wheels, one buff/coup and one
> pack of the "bogie plates.
Not necessarily. If you want to model "Eurotrash", as Lar so eloquently puts it,
then use the buffers and bogie plates. I model US style locos and cars and so I
don't use the buffers. Instead I use this piece:
http://home.att.net/~partsref/images/3176.gif , the 2x3 rounded plate with a hole to
hold the magnet. Or you can cut the buffers off (I've tried this and it works
excellently, just not very pure)
> The bogie plate is a 4x6 "tile" with a single centered technic pin. It
> goes on top of a truck assembly to allow that truck assembly to swivel.
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> Now, if you are building a 2 axle car, you can just make the floor from
> plates. But if you're building a 4 axle, you need something for the
> bogie plate to plug into. TLC sells a "train base" which is a 6x28 2
> plate high affair that has the holes. OR you can use technic plates and
> some cleverness. In either case you need to leave a gap for the pin to
> turn in (that is, do NOT put anything directly on top of the hole that
> you use, leave at least one plate of free space)
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> If you have ldraw/ldlite, go to the cad models area and you can see some
> train cars and engines, looking at the early steps will help.
> Alternatively, go look at scanned instructions such as 4565 and 2126.
> 2126 is particularly good because it has both 4 wheel and 8 wheel
> freight cars. The use of technic plates is a fan innnovation, TLG never
> does it, they always use floor plates.
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> > > Would I want more than one Train Motor on a train and will this overload the
> > > Speed Regulator?
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> > I think this is no problem. (In my own 12V set I had five trains on the same
> > track) I guess this will be no different with the new 9V trains.
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> You can run more than one. As you add more, you get a slow down,
> especially on grades. I have run 4 successfully. Very slow. Running 5
> trips an internal reset and the speed reg shuts down (it thinks there's
> a short circuit). you have to let it cool off and it works again.
Hmmm. I have run 7 before with no problems. (Just the motors lashed to one another
as an experiment)
-John
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> --
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| (...) Yes. (...) It varies. 3225 comes without track or a regulator. 4565 comes without a regulator but with track. 4559 comes with both. 4561 comes with both. There is a version (europe only, I think) of 4561, numbered 4560, that comes without a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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