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Re: Container Width (was Re: New MOC: Cargo Sprinter)
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:59:55 GMT
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SRC wrote:
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> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes:
> > > Containers are not as wide as trains! Sure, they are close, but with trains
> > > being 10' wide, represented as 6 studs, then an 8' wide container should be
> > > 4.8 studs wide. If you round it to the nearest stud, then it would be 5
> > > wide by 12long for an HCL and 5 x 24for an FCL.
> > >
> > > Containers are not as wide as trains and never should be.
> >
> > Agreed. However the 4 wides just look funny. They're not even tall enough for
> > a minifig to stand up in, and we know how short those guys are. :-)
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> Good one :-) I agree the four wides look too small, but the six wides look
> too big. I suspect that on an eight wide car, the six wides would look right,
> but the photos I saw of some of the ambassador cars with six on six just
> didn't work IMO.
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> Five wide would be the way to go yes, but is it practical? The Milton
> customer side of me says "Yeah Five", while the builder side of me says
> "Hmmmm, I wonder". A five wide could be placed on a standard
> container car meant for four, but would slide half a stud to the outside
> of the corners. I run _Express_ cargo. :-)
One way to do this would be to build the bottom layer as 4 wide
(actually, probably 2 or 3 plate heights). If one didn't mind having to
slightly modify 4-wide containers to work on your car designed for
5-wide containers, and don't mind having the 4-wide containers sitting
1/2 stud forward or backward of the position for a 5 wide container, one
could use 1x2 tiles w/center stud instead of the 2x2 tile. The 5 wide
container would then sit on this stud in the normal position for a stud
to fit into the bottom of a plate. A 4-wide container would have a tube
on the underside sit on the stud, thus centering the container between
the width of the car, but also sliding it forward or back 1/2 stud. The
only mod to the existing 4-wide containers would be to put a 2x2 plate
on the underside at each end, sort of like this (bottom view):
+-----+........................+-----+
| | | |
| +--+--+ +--+--+ |
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+--+ O | | O +--+
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| +--+--+ +--+--+ |
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+-----+........................+-----+
The "O" on the 2x2 plate is the tube which will fit on the stud on the
1x2 w/center stud.
The bottom of the 5-wide container would look like (16 stud long shown
for example):
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
+-----------------------+-----------------------+
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+-----+-----------------+-----------------+-----+
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| O | | O |
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| O | | O |
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+-----+-----------------+-----------------+-----+
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+-----------------------+-----------------------+
--
Frank Filz
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 | | Re: Container Width (was Re: New MOC: Cargo Sprinter)
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| I've attempted a 5-wide container to place on my Cargo Sprinter or the standard LEGO road trucks with trailers that hold the "normal" 4 wide by 16 long LEGO design containers. This 5-wide container can stack above or below 4 wide containers. It (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Container Width (was Re: New MOC: Cargo Sprinter)
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| (...) Good one :-) I agree the four wides look too small, but the six wides look too big. I suspect that on an eight wide car, the six wides would look right, but the photos I saw of some of the ambassador cars with six on six just didn't work IMO. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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