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Re: Acela ver2: Magnetic nose coupler
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:28:48 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> Okay, I've had it-- James, your designs are so cool and innovative that
> it kills me to see you building 6 wide instead of 8!! All I can think
> about is what you would be able to do with the added freedom of building
> 8 wide. Won't you please try building something 8 wide, just for the
> fun of it ? Try it, you'll like it!
Leave him alone. Maybe he's a good enough builder that he doesn't need the
crutch of a 30% larger pallete to get the details right. Maybe he's a poor
college student who doesn't have 2x the number of bricks that you need to
build the same model. Maybe he has an 8 wide under development. We all know
that you like 8 wide but don't stoop to begging, eh? It's beneath you. <grin>
However maybe you HAVE to beg to get people to do it. If so, what does that
say about the merits? <BIG grin>
> [1] Any Alka-Seltzer fans out there who haven't forgotten that one?
I remember it. I also remember that the receipient of the advice lived to
regret taking it. <biggest grin>
++Lar
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| (...) Trollman, that's exactly the myth, the myth (Yeth?;) I have been talking about. There really isn't any big difference between 8 wide and 6 wide except that when you look at a 6 wide from its ends, it looks too tall for its width and looks (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Acela ver2: Magnetic nose coupler
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| Okay, I've had it-- James, your designs are so cool and innovative that it kills me to see you building 6 wide instead of 8!! All I can think about is what you would be able to do with the added freedom of building 8 wide. Won't you please try (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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