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Re: Dirty little secret (was Re: New Interurban/Trolley model, perfect for those downtown scenes
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:37:38 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.chem.^SayNoToSpam^tulane.edu
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Eric Kingsley wrote:
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> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > 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?
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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 together.
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> 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?
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> I don't know really but it is rather annoying and one of my current pet-peeves
> with TLC.
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> Eric Kingsley
>
> The New England LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nelug.org/
I always thought the space between the wheels on a motor was 3 studs. The
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
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