uefchen Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Here my Rolle Coaster on Chain: By üfchen Quote
D3K Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Wow, that is one of the simplest, yet most ingenious roller coaster tracks I have seen! Very cool! Quote
JJ2 Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Wow just wow I love how you used crawler treads Quote
Legocity2713 Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 (edited) Wow, I love it. It'd be awesome to see you make it into a fully fledged amusement park ride, as in colors and adding more minifigs. Great job all around man, truly a spectacle showing off what the toy can really do. :thumbup: Edited August 21, 2015 by Legocity2713 Quote
BusterHaus Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Awesome! Just last week I was twisting these tracks into loops, thinking that it would make a pretty good roller coaster track. I think you did it more justice than I would have. Quote
Jeroen Ottens Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 I'll just join the chorus: what a brilliant idea. Possibilities are endless with a motorized car... Hmm... Let me think about that a bit longer... Thanks for the inspiration Quote
Block_Smarts Lego Technic Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Must be a scary ride. It is so clever! Quote
MajklSpajkl Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Could you please post a photo of the car? That is really very good idea, might fit into some City also... Quote
MaxSupercars Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 (edited) When I saw the preview youtube picture in first post I know immediately that it must be next crazy creation from Uefchen... and... it is! But great Idea to use the principe of tracks and gears in opposite way... now the tracks do not move but the gears do... brilliant... Good work! Actually based on this it is possible to build for example monorail for Lego City!!! How simple... :) Max... :) Edited August 21, 2015 by MaxSupercars Quote
nerdsforprez Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 This is great to be sure. But to be consistent with an earlier post regarding the sources of ideas........ hasn't this idea for tracks been done by someone before? I swear it is in the signature block of one of our esteemed members here on EB. I think it is famed train enthusiast.... Mark Bellis. Quote
MaxSupercars Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 I think I have found it... http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41612 I don't know if Uefchen has seen it, but probably not and that's good because he was no influenced by that big not best solution... That from Uefchen is simple and genius... Max... Quote
Captainowie Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 There can't be much ground clearance at the low points of the loop. I'd hate to be a slightly taller than average fig! Quote
uefchen Posted August 22, 2015 Author Posted August 22, 2015 Hallo , The design I do not know. But were so similar to my first car and also much more complicated, I have a total of 8 different cars designed and built but only the last worked really well. Thanks for the link and Like üfchen Greeting Quote
MaxSupercars Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 (edited) Uefchen... can you post some detail pictures of the car? Maybe also a bit disassembled to see how was it made... maybe I build a short track... I need more tracks :) ...my excavator will be some time without movement... :D Thanx... :* Max... Edited August 22, 2015 by MaxSupercars Quote
uefchen Posted August 23, 2015 Author Posted August 23, 2015 Here the Link to some Pictures : http://www.brickthat.net/index.php/User/49-uefchen/#recentActivity By üfcen Quote
uefchen Posted August 27, 2015 Author Posted August 27, 2015 Thanks for the many likes By üfchen Quote
veryhappy Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 I really like it and it should be easy to change it to a GBC module Quote
Brickthus Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 This is great to be sure. But to be consistent with an earlier post regarding the sources of ideas........ hasn't this idea for tracks been done by someone before? I swear it is in the signature block of one of our esteemed members here on EB. I think it is famed train enthusiast.... Mark Bellis. Thanks for the plug Basic train and 360 degree barrel roll from 2007. and . This was before we had the LiPo battery. The most difficult part was to get a full battery box of AAs out of the barrel roll.Glad it has taken a few years for a new, improved 5-wide track solution to be built! What Uefchen has done is simpler and lighter, very nice, and easy to get a long track round the room. It doesn't need such strong supports either, though no humans would want to go on a roller-coaster that flexed like that; already Alton Towers in the UK had an accident on the Smiler when one car ran into another! Just as the more pedantic people on YouTube said of mine "it's just a train", so it is difficult to get a train on these tracks to go any distance without on-board motor power as the friction is too high. This seems to go at a reasonable speed. I liked the larger sprockets better as they run less-noisily on the track. So some challenges for you Uefchen: I wonder if gearing it up a bit and having climb assistance from a fixed chain would make it more like a roller-coaster. This would mean the on-board motor power would be just enough to overcome the friction difference between a track made of rails or tubes and this type of track. Can your train do a barrel roll? I would be interested to know if any of the parts on the rough side of the track, or the edges, show signs of wear. Would it be possible to use rubber-tyred wheels on the rough side of the track, as the equivalent of the wheels that hold a real roller-coaster on the track? I have run wheels inside circles of tracks as a pulley race, as part of the propeller pitch control on a jet engine model. Would it also be advantageous to use some older and some newer tracks in order to customise the loops? Shape 1, Shape 2, Shape 3, Info Mark Quote
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