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Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:46:30 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:

I personally think 4 stud spacing is closer (by a hair) to the motor truck
spacing (which is somewhere between 3 and 4, for some strange reason I never
did determine. Anyone know why or have an entertaining speculation?

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 together.

Part of me wants to say this was some sort of ploy by TLC to get us to dubble
up on motors but I doubt that was it.  I don't know if there is something about
the geometries inside the motor (Never opened one up) that restricts the
spacing or possibly they found this spacing best for keeping contact on corners
and points?

I don't know really but it is rather annoying and one of my current pet-peeves
with TLC.


Eric Kingsley

The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/



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  Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes
 
(...) 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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  Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes
 
(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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