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Re: candy and ***** size: was Re: 10219 Maersk Container train set
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:54:37 GMT
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On 11-01-25 03:54 PM, Tim Gould wrote:
> > You're a braver man than I.
We've actually had surprisingly little trouble. We do have a loose rope barrier
around the layout, and we always have a group member at the "grabbing" spots. In
fact, we usually have to invite the kids to grab candy. Some are fairly picky
about which ones they want. A lot of times the parents are with the kids, and we
ask them if its OK - gotta watch out for allergies, etc.
> > As I think about it, though, that's a totally cool idea! Imagine if you could
> > get it to be some sort of automated hopper delivery system... Put a trigger on
> > the side of the train that opens up the hopper as it goes past, and then hook
> > that up to a mechanism with a LONG horizontal ramp to catch the candy as it gets
> > dispersed. If done properly, you could probably get it to deliver without
> > derailing or disturbing the train.
Now that is a cool idea!
-Chris Gray (NALUG)
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