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Re: MoC: The Limacion track design is BUILT!
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Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:51:34 GMT
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"James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message
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> > How much room do you have between one layer of the spiral and the next?
> > I've been toying with multi-layer layouts and I'm not yet positive just
> > how much room to leave between layers.
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> I think the best amount, if you can afford it in distance, is 15 bricks • from
> base-first hit thing. This will give about 14 bricks clear from rail, • which is
> enough to run all the stock lego stuff (including 4552). I had 12.6 on my
> current layout, and would aim for a bit more than that on the next • one...but, I
> was forced into a comprimise between grade and height, which I didn't like • (too
> much grade, not enough height...I should have ran 1/2 way around the room
> more...)
I tried to follow that same idea. Way back when(RTL days) I asked if anyone
came up with a ramp design and someone did(Matt's Train Depot??) and I think
it said to use the 4549 as a height guide. Supposed to be one of the
tallest train cars made?
Oh, by the way, someone asked what's next. An idea hit me today of a
crecent moon shaped ramp plan(w/ rounded ends) that would serve as the
uphill and the downhill would lie on the concave side of the crecent a
circle(maybe ellipse) form ramp. Eh, I need to work out a lot of details
before I build this one.
> It is however, a comprimise always, and not one that is easy to solve.
> Hopefully next time I will have more than 10 ft to come up the last 15
> bricks...that or I will come up with a slighty different approach. The • current
> grade I had (about 1.3 bricks/length peak) limited me more going down hill • than
> up, to about 4 cars/motor.
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> James Powell
No doubt that it requires compromise. In the past, my ramps would be the
same but that caused probs going uphill. I once grinded a part of track
because the motor wheels were spinning in place. This current design of a
larger uphill ramp(the outer) appears to have overcome that problem.
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