 | | Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | (soon to be fixed...) I set the auction time to 10 days because I have a dirty little secret! I haven't designed the dummy truck yet. I knew it would be easy to do and I was running out of time this weekend (1). So the LDraw instructions use two (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | (...) Well I personally find this spacing quite frustrateing. So much so that I use 2 motors on the engines that I have designed so far because I just don't like the look of the dummy truck mixed with the motor truck. They just don't look right (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes —Christopher Masi
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| | | | (...) problem with a dummy motor is that if the truck has 3 studs between the wheels then the bogie plate nub is of center. Chris (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes —Steve Chapple
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| | | | (...) That's certainly the best way to do it, but also the most expensive. (...) I'm fairly sure there is a valid Technic_al reason for the spacing. I can't check it at the moment, but contact points with points :-) and especially the cross tracks (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) Nah, when you've bought so many dupes of train sets for the other parts, train motors are a dime a dozen. I have had both of my double trucked engines double motored from practically the start of my collection (not quite - I bought one each of (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Good point. But not a problem for the thread originating model which has no couplers and therefore doesn't really have to worry about friction losses cutting into pulling capacity. The increased symmetry of having the spacing between the truck (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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