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Re: Tank Car Sketch
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 29 Nov 2000 03:18:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Kevin Maynes writes:
> In lugnet.trains, James Brown writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Kevin Maynes writes:
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> > > Thought it might be worth a larf.
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> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2136
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> > Cool! How stable are they? (as in - is the plate running the length of the
> > car necessary?)
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> > James
> > (who was just contemplating picking up 7 more of these himself...)
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> Why stop at only 7? ;)
So my wife doesn't kill me? Actually, she's on shaky ground if she complains
at the moment... I just cleared a few hundred 1x2 tan and brown bricks out of
brickbay for her... hmm... ;)
> They're actually pretty stable, more so than I'd have thought when I first
> started building. They'd probably crumble to individual elements if they hit
> the floor from table height, but to pick up and move they're not bad.
> Construction-wise, between each layer of panels is a set of plates, either
> four of the 4x4 1/4 round ones or two round and one 4x6 for the foot - these
> plates are held together by a 4x4 plate top and bottom.
> The plate running the length has no effect on the tank itself, it only acts as
> intermediary between the tank footings and the trucks. I haven't yet come up
> with another way of mounting the tank other than these wide footings, aside
> perhaps from drilling a hole to accept a technic peg.
> It might require a redesign, like a central spinal beam in place of the two
> with booms to hold the footings. As I type I'm starting to like that idea, but
> on the other hand it might end up too tall and looking rather ... "perched".
> Dunno.
> Thoughts?
The tankers I see here out at Dow are attached very similarly to what you've
done - just closer to the ends, which might be tricky. Nothing in the middle
underneath, and a piddly little rail&step at each end - probably not more than
a stud in length, even on an 8-wide.
Looks pretty close, actually. Tankers are pretty bare-bones.
James
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