LEGO 2x 2878c02 Train complete axle +wheel | Black

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The site is aimed at RC hobbyists but they'll happily sell bearings to anybody with a valid credit card. Wiggle track would be interesting, but also doing an "S" pattern with 90° turn into 180° counter-turn into 90° counter turn all on R40 track. In my book, the guys at BMR are one of the most important resources for the Lego train hobby, first thing I thought of when I read this thread. I didn't say the independent plastic wheels are superior in general, just the limited target scenario of a single kid with a single city set for the short period of time that the parents are still paying attention to the new purchase/gift.

In addition to different designs (number of spokes, with and without Technic hole for coupling rods, box poke or disc design), there are variants with and without flange and with and without groove for a rubber ring for better traction. In your experiment, you used straight track and gravity to accelarate - since metal axles have less friction and mechanic resistance at all and there is no curve resistance, they will perform better. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Once the sun comes up and I have enough light to make the camera happy I'll shoot some more video and collect more results.Adding a 180 degree sloping turn to your experiment with other straight part behind and measuring part times of travel times would complicate the things, but with better results. forums/topic/174266-improved-method-to-equip-lego-train-wheel-holders-with-ball-bearings-no-cutting-of-the-wheel-holder-required/ earlier I probably would not have looked for another solution). These wheels were connected to a modified 2x4 brick and their running characteristics are much worse then the 9V train wheels. I remember when they introduced the full plastic wheels TLC made a manipulative video to show us why the new ones are better.

Guess what, you can even find discount vouchers, coupons and other money saving deals of lego train wheel on AliExpress. The related products of lego train wheel: Simply browse an extensive selection of the best lego train wheel and find one that suits you! The only reason I wrote "eternity" is that I had many trams and passanger cars (each of them has at least 200g load for each axle) running on a permanent display between 2017 and 2021 (with some lockdown months). Additional Notes: Part 2878c01 has a metal axle that goes all of the way through the center of the wheels.

TLDR: my wagon with one pair of metal axles is significantly faster than the one with all plastic axles. com/a/PZ1Oo1I A few photos, one showing what's left of my layout after I removed the tracks for these tests. We restrict the purchase limit available to a single household to ensure fairness for all of our fans.

If you actually needed the roller bearings on the uneven layout you could make some hidden stops, e. Used in sets like 7897, 7939, 7898, 10183, 60197, 60198, 4841, 10173, 10219, 7938, 3677, 9467 and 7597. The wagons are 24 studs long with 16x1+8x1 or 12x1 bricks on one layer, then 6x1 bricks across those on top.I simply do not believe that the split axles, without any support in the center, will take the load from above in the long run. November 2019 Now Bigger then ever: XXL wheels now available in red, black, dark gray, light gray and dark red. One bearing arrived in pieces, and just generally the Lego axles+wheels I have don't stick together very well so picking up a model generally means half the wheels fall off. LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, DUPLO, the FRIENDS logo, the MINIFIGURES logo, DREAMZzz, NINJAGO, VIDIYO and MINDSTORMS are trademarks of the LEGO Group.