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Re: Acela ver2: Magnetic nose coupler
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:22:27 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 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!
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> 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.
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
silly.
> 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>
It's beneath me??? I'm floored...
> However maybe you HAVE to beg to get people to do it. If so, what does that
> say about the merits? <BIG grin>
Believe it or don't, I had absolutely no input to the decision for the GMLTC to
go 8 wide-- in fact, as you well know cuz you weren't a stranger to dishing it
out, I took all kinds of heat and ridicule for my 8 wide MOCs.... Then Conan
saw the light....;-)
> > [1] Any Alka-Seltzer fans out there who haven't forgotten that one?
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> I remember it. I also remember that the receipient of the advice lived to
> regret taking it. <biggest grin>
I can't believe I ate the whole thing.....
-John
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> ++Lar
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| (...) EXCUSE ME????? What sort of revisionist history rewrite is this???? John Neal whined for months for the GMLTC to go 8-wide instead of 6-wide. And after we couldn't take his whining anymore we broke down and voted 'yes'. And NOW he wants us to (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Acela ver2: Magnetic nose coupler
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains)
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