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Re: Technic Tank Treads/Coveyer belt!
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:35:24 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Miles Gentry writes:
> In lugnet.dacta, Matt Agnew writes:
> > I'm trying to get my hopper cars to dump into a bin, and then have the >conveyor
> > re-load them into the train cars. Haven't found LEGO pieces that work well as
> > cargo. Currently working with (unpopped) popcorn. [snip]
> Facetted stringing beads behave nicely as bulk cargo on a partitioned belt
> of conveyor links and scoop well with the front-end bucket and backhoe.
> Find them in a craft shop among necklace stringing supplies. Sizes 5mm to
> 10mm work best A bead usually has 20 to 30 facets that prevent too much
> rolling. They bounce when dropped but do not roll far away. Wide selection
> of colors,vivid and dull, opaque and transparent. A transparent light blue
> bead would contrast well against the black conveyor links and most Lego
> colors in the cargo containers and the conveyor walls.
Cool idea. Non LEGO(r) of course. dull Black sounds like it would look like
coal, the most common hopper load in the US.
Great tip!
++Lar
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| (...) Facetted stringing beads behave nicely as bulk cargo on a partitioned belt of conveyor links and scoop well with the front-end bucket and backhoe. Find them in a craft shop among necklace stringing supplies. Sizes 5mm to 10mm work best A bead (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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