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Re: Monorails - Connecting multiple setups?
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 22 Oct 1998 05:46:01 GMT
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Tim Courtney writes:
> Greetings-
> I guess this is my informal return to the Lego community :) I have a
> question. Does anyone know how to connect multiple monorail setups? There is
> the two cars, and then the motor, and that's it. I would like to see a longer
> monorail.
See the site of James Mathis for a three car monorail done in a very clever way
with springs and the technic link.
Coupling including multiple motors gets much harder since you have to do
reversing quite carefully. This is an ideal application for an RCX, controlling
two reversers in a sequenced fashion to reverse both motors simultaneously.
> Is there a way to take the trucks off the bottom and attach them to
> a different piece, so theoretically someone with a lot of trucks can make a
> big monorail? I want a long modular canister monorail for Zacktron. Large
> octagonal canisters (8 studs wide on the floor) can be lifted off of the cars
> and rearranged inside to hold passengers or cargo.
Good question. Anyone?
++Lar
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| (...) is (...) longer (...) way (...) That's really neat! I've seen the site before, but without half the things he has there now. The station is truly breathtaking!!!! (...) controlling (...) Being that I'm neither a train enthusiast or an RCX (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) is (...) longer (...) way (...) I took this 3-car monorail with me to the PNLTC event in Seattle over the weekend 26-27 September. Traversing the club's monorail layout revealed an unfortunate design weakness in the 'homemade' coupling with (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| Greetings- I guess this is my informal return to the Lego community :) I have a question. Does anyone know how to connect multiple monorail setups? There is the two cars, and then the motor, and that's it. I would like to see a longer monorail. Is (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.trains)
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