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Re: voltage question??
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:50:52 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Dave Jost writes:
> Hello I just got a box of Lego..
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> Yeah Yeah so what you may think.... OK OK... I got a question...
> in the box was some train stuff and what suspect to be a train motor...
> the motor block is blue with a black bas and is twelve studds long and 4
> wide...the side are a full 2 bricks down (wheel mounts??)..there are 2x 2
> elctrical connectors simular to the 12 volt motors of the 80'ies...
> What I would like to know is if this is a 4.5 or 12 volt motor??
> also what is the hole on the top for?? there is a sponge or something under
> it?? is this for oil???
Hi Dave,
a blue motor housing with black base, that means a very old motor like from
sets 100, 102, 112, 113 from 1966 - 1968. So it's definitely a 4.5 Volt motor.
If you are interested in an inside view look here:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/9v_12v/pi260.jpg
or more schematic:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0240/0240-19.html
Please notice, that you need very special wheels with longer metal shaft than
usual wheels during the 70ies used to have.
With some fantasy you can recognize them in this picture:
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=102
The last 3 millimeters of the shaft are only half of a circle: so you get a
kind of mechanical coupling.
Therefor these motors give the strongest Lego engines you can find! They pulled
not only a big amount of waggons (with hook couplings instead of magnetic
couplings you can make up real long trains!) but they even where able to move
some buildings and level crossings with additional track by accident. This
picture was taken yust 2 minutes, before that happened:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/event_3/pi195.jpg
two 112 engines are pulling a short train with a too big combine harvester
which couldn't pass the 148 train station.... The train station was to big to
pass 146 level crossing and that was attached to the track: the result was a
big mess and we have been so busy to repair the damage, that I forgot to take
pictures....
And yes, the sponge is for oil, but the motor needs not more, than a drop in 10
years.
Regards,
Ben
My surftip:
http://buerger.metropolis.de/legoit/lego.html
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| (...) If you cannot get any of these wheels there is another solution. I have had one of these motors since (about) 1969. The motor was overworked and abused, regularly with 12v instead of 4.5v and gave no trouble at all. I took it out of storage (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hello I just got a box of Lego.. Yeah Yeah so what you may think.... OK OK... I got a question... in the box was some train stuff and what suspect to be a train motor... the motor block is blue with a black bas and is twelve studds long and 4 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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