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Subject:	Train coupler designs was Re: New Elements on Factory?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic
Date:	Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:20:48 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:

In lugnet.trains, Jack Hawk wrote:

I’m usually not on Factory/Pick-a-Brick, but have been this week. In just the past couple of days, it looks like they’ve made some changes to the train elements:

Added

Train Buffer 2 (Design ID: 64422, Category: Transportation Means, Trains)
Prepack With 4 Axle (Element ID: 4492719, Category: Not Aproved New Elements)

Removed

individual axles
the old buffers
magnets
magnet holders

Is it me, or does the new buffer look like its hard-mounted and inflexible? Also, what happened to the old elements? Any chance we’ll get them back?

--Jack AFOL, St. Louis

I see what you mean about the buffers, although I assume you mean the magnet that is hard mounted. The ability to pivot to allow the correct polarity to face outwards if vital really, otherwise you end up with the Brio problem of having to have all your stock one way round. It maybe simply a crap picture tho. And why, when new moulds cost money, do they produce another version?

Tim

Well... here’s a technic coupler which has the same range of movement, almost the same dimensions and is rotationally symmetric.

I’ve cross-posted this to .technic in case the good people there can come up with something smaller and/or more elegant. I would think there could be.

Tim

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		Re: Train coupler designs was Re: New Elements on Factory?
(...) I used a similar technique in the past, though I can't find a hyperlink to the solution (which was not mine, I think Chris Masi's). It worked rather well, though the main problem that I encountered was the frictionless pins slipping out of the (...) (17 years ago, 4-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, FTX)

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		Re: New Elements on Factory?
(...) I see what you mean about the buffers, although I assume you mean the magnet that is hard mounted. The ability to pivot to allow the correct polarity to face outwards if vital really, otherwise you end up with the Brio problem of having to (...) (17 years ago, 3-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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