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Re: "Big Blue" Pneumatic 4-6-4 engine and tender
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:16:51 GMT
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Let me know what you think, including any suggestions for improving the
functionality/looks of Big Blue

Dave K

Very cool.  I can't tell from the pictures, but are your driver wheels on either
side of the engine set 90 degrees out of phase with the associated timing
difference on your valve positioning?

Ben

In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote:



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  Re: "Big Blue" Pneumatic 4-6-4 engine and tender
 
(...) Yep--did the 90 degree offset--when you watch the video, you can see the wheels pause 4 times per revolution (using compass points-- NE, SE, SW, NW)--that's when one phase is done and waiting for the next phase. 4 phases with two pistons! I (...) (18 years ago, 27-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
  Re: "Big Blue" Pneumatic 4-6-4 engine and tender
 
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Ben Fleskes wrote: <snip> (...) A huge oversite on my part-- Ben, I know I've thanked you before, but seriously, again thanks for the wheel sets that you produce--without them, my pneumatic train wouldn't have happened, (...) (18 years ago, 27-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)

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  "Big Blue" Pneumatic 4-6-4 engine and tender
 
An idea forming in the mind many years ago was to take the pneumatic cylinders and actually make a 'steam' engine. Inspired by Trevyn a few years back at hte hobby show, when he showed up with a pneumatic engine that ran on the duplo tracks, I (...) (18 years ago, 27-Oct-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)  

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