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  1. locoworks
    I was told that every box of 60 has atleast 1 of each character in it. it would be nice if it had 3 of each and 4 of the perceived popular ones.
  2. locoworks
    are these dates US or UK?? I would like to know the UK dates please.
  3. locoworks
    , the motor in there isn't designed for the loads you are looking to give it. if you get it so it grips, you are straining the motor more and will burn it out sooner rather than later.
  4. locoworks
    nice job.
  5. locoworks
    250 and 200 refer to the height of the rails in 1000's of an inch. 250 is 1/4 inch tall and 200 is 1/5 inch tall. use an online converter for heights mm. I'd suggest 250 is more likely due to the flange depth on lego wheels., if it is even deep enough??
  6. locoworks
    close inspection of the pillar between the 2 centre windows second floor under the 4 flowerpots looks like bricks have been painted?? grey mortar on the horizontals but not the verticals???
  7. locoworks
    i guess you could use sails as the wings?? the ones in the tall ships?
  8. locoworks
    why not just drive each wheel with it's own motor and forget all about LSD's?? if you're not trying to turn on the spot one motor should load up slightly and the other spin easier?? that said there may not be enough mass to create a load large enough to tax the power output of the motors.
  9. locoworks
    great idea. might be nice if you could use the excess pressure and also use lower pressure to set up a switch system to operate the pump motor so it works like a conventional compressor with air reservoir?? make the high pressure switch adjustable with a screw or something?? not 100% lego i'm sure but authentic operation.
  10. locoworks
    take a photo or short video showing yourself with your boxes and the labels and also any correspondence and email between the seller and yourself and TLG representative emails and send them the lot. if the TLG guy hasn't emailed you ask them to and show the email on your monitor in the video too. might be enough??
  11. locoworks
    now you've had the box defaced it's worth less than a new one.....
  12. locoworks
    on a technical note, are they duplo bodies running on 9V or PF track???
  13. locoworks
    the digitrax zephyr is a good piece of kit, you could buy a couple of cheap DC controllers and use the jump ports on the back of the zephyr allowing direct control ( for speed and direction only on the jump ports without pressing buttons ) to have direct control of 3 trains at once. alternatively buy a suitable interface and use one of the free JMRI softwares to run the zephyr from your PC
  14. locoworks
    you can't unfortunately.
  15. locoworks
    totally awesome
  16. locoworks
    where is james??? i also like bill and ben and the scotish twins donald and douglas, :-) great workon what you've done though, top class.
  17. locoworks
    very nice, 'city of truro' next please?
  18. locoworks
    instead of trying to get limited slip diffs, why not just use 4 small motors wired in parallel and drive each wheel independently? any motor getting more or less strain will speed up or bog down accordingly and if a wheel spins or gets air it won't stop the other ones turning it will just rev harder cos of no load on it. this set up will use a little more current from the battery but the weight of the vehicle only needs a specific amount of energy to move it at a given speed whether that is one big motor or 4 little ones shouldn't make a lot of difference to the power needed?? there will just be more heat loss at a guess???
  19. locoworks
    the snag with dreaming about 8 or 10 coupled engines is that they would look bad going round the sharp lego tracks, if they even could?? i'd like to see some smaller loco's rather than big boys and mallets.
  20. locoworks
    it needs rods on it?
  21. locoworks
    their cost is the prohibitor at a guess for us tight legoholics?? i have started using 'energiser industrial' AA's they are cheap enough and have good power. there is a comparrison somewhere online that checks out around 20 AA makes of battery and the energiser industrial is very near the top below the lithium types and a couple of other expensive alkaline types. bang for buck they are a good option.
  22. locoworks
    i like the idea of a landy model, but what is the parts list?? how much do all the parts cost for a static model without power functions remote control?? is a kit available with all the bits? and if so how much??
  23. locoworks
    the axles don't really cause more friction in themselves, they just don't allow the outer wheels to rotate at a faster speed to the inner wheels on curves so that causes friction between the wheel treads and the rails rather than the axles in the holes. why would a loose axle have more friction than a loose pin??? anyways i'm going to get it when it hits the shelves cos i like it.
  24. locoworks
    i suggest a simple ( ish ) solution would be to get some nickel silver 'tyres' made for the BBB drivers and then use some springy phopher bronze wipers on the top of the tyres/wheel treads. many OO/HO wheels have plastic centres, but the tyre and flange are metal not just the tyre. maybe use the flangeless wheels and fit a one piece tyre and flange around the wheel and then the wipers could run on the flange edge instead of the tread.
  25. locoworks
    ok,appologies, my mistake, i was looking at the wrong part and assumed that was the part you were refering to.
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