 | | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego? —Erik Amzallag
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| | | (...) Hi Rob, I built it for one of our train shows, in Orleans, France, November 2004. Orleans is the native town of the aerotrain, so I tought we should show one with LEGO bricks ;). (URL) I used monorail base and motor to do it. I wanted to make (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego? —Rob Antonishen
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| | | | Very Nice! I had not seen that on brickshelf before. I am asuming the real thing and the lego version both only go straight, correct? -Rob A> (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego? —Erik Amzallag
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| | | | (...) Mine goes only straight, that's right. As mine is 6 wide, I cannot use the "stop track". So I made a track without the gear rack. Don't forget to turn off the motor when it reach the end to preserv the battery ;) For the real one, hum, I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego? —Anthony Sava
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| | | | | (...) Forgive me for butting into the convestation, but have you ever considered building a pair of Mindstorm controlled round houses for your Aerotrain? You could build a pair of passenger stations (one on each end of the track) that were really (...) (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego? —Tim David
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| | | | (...) Making it hover in Lego (as opposed to running on monorail wheels) might be a challenge! Tim (18 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego? —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | (...) Mark & Ross Benz of BAYLUG created a working mag-lev train using lego train magnets. It canbe done, it just might get expensive if you use an all-Lego solution. IIRC, they used (URL) on the track and (URL) under the train body. Paul Sinasohn (...) (18 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego? —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | (...) I've toyed with that solution, but how do you propel a hovertrain in LEGO? If it has something that touches the track, that would make it not fully hoverable... -Rob www.brickmodder.net www.lifelites.com (18 years ago, 22-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | Re: Aerotrain/hovertrain in Lego? —Tim David
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| | | | (...) If you built a maglev then a Lego propeller (as mentioned elsewhere in the thread) should be powerful enough to power it, due to the much reduced friction. Control would be another matter... Tim (...) (18 years ago, 23-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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