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Re: Just how sturdy are your trains?
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:17:50 GMT
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Hi Christopher,
I think that's quite natural. Fine detailed models with studs in changing
directions will be more fragile than massive models with all studs upside...
As an example Torsten Werneckes bavarian 4-4-4 steam engine is quite stable
when driven for hours, but if you try to put it out of the track, you have to
be very careful.
After a derailment with following crash to floor the engine "exploded" to
a million of small parts.....
crashed engine:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/fgltc/4te018.jpg
Picture of rebuilt engine:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/fgltc/4te091.jpg
I suppose all original TLG stuff would have survived such a drop down something
better....
Leg godt!
Ben
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| Thanks for putting up a link to the "exploded" view. Now, I finally know what you mean by putting o-rings on those wheels. For the longest time I couldn't figure out what you were talking about. The o-ring goes inbetween the rims of the hub. Use two (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Let me say that this is NOTmeant to be derogatory in any way. I just checked out Ben's "a Baltimore and Ohio Royal Blue 2-6-2 steam engine" (URL) it got me thinking. Ben used a stud forward building technique along the length of the engine, and I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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