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Chassis done! Ignore the squeak, I have not oiled the wheels as they are temporary lol...
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V4 bogie and chassis complete, I think we have a winner! I'm ready to start adding lights and designing chassis for the coaches. I'm thinking I may go single axel on all the coaches except the observation car, V4 bogie in the rear since it will be the end.
Rhinochugger
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Clever rear bogie solution - gotta be creative for tight radius curves
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Got the first test chassis and bogies for the coaches printed up. When the epoxy cures I will give it a go and see if I solved the single axel derailing dilemma lol...had room on the build plate to even toss on a little 0-4-0 tram engine.
For your single wheel in the coaches you may need to think about a centering system on this similar to how LGb achieve it with their couplings between vehicles, problems may arise on points with wheels at odd angles when running across point frogs.
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Ok...so my brain told me "why not set the wheels up like casters!". Seemed to be a good idea, it was not lol. What I did do after that failed was crank the pivot shafts down and make them fixed wheels. This actually works fine so I will just design some fixed single holders and then start the couplers. I figured I'd just modify some Super Chief couplers. The video is fixed single axels on Big Hauler garbage track.
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Sorry for the double post but this just came off the printer...I was half expecting it to fail lol. Printed in TPU (ignore Sam in the background)
