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timwatson

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Re: Cannot print model without warping
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2021, 02:42:49 PM »
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This is only a test print of the body to make sure the details would print properly. The car is a stream styled heavyweight. It will have full width diaphragms and I have not decided the mechanism that I am going to use to replicate them yet. I have a mock up of the Kato Kinematic couplers that I am working on for close coupling. The diaphragms will be functioning and stay as close to each other as possible, maybe even stay in contact as the cars corner. Originally considered the diaphragm as the coupler using magnets (it's a 5 car train that will never be broken up) but they need to slide side to side too much to make that viable.

Not the actual car but similar design....

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo1061.jpg

Mock up of the diaphragm....




Makes sense, so its a work in progress basically.
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Re: Cannot print model without warping
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2021, 10:25:11 AM »
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Ooh, swaybacked out of the box.  Very Furlow-esque.  ;)

DFF

Yeah, a little swayback looks about right for old narrow gauge stuff.

Maybe if you weren't complaining about it, others would have start thinking its actually a "feature" and be asking you how you did that.  :trollface:

Not such a great thing for modern passenger cars, though.   :(