I had forgotten about the tape trick. Apparently as a toddler I had put clear tape on the earpiece of my grandmother's phone. She thought it was broken and called a repairman. He looked at it for a second, then asked, "Do you have grandchildren?" ;-)
Thanks for the offer of cars. He (and I) would really appreciate them, but don't go to too much trouble. If you can send me plans on your design, that would be great! What are you using for wheels and magnets?
Fri, Jul 18, 2003, 11:42pm (EDT+4) snipped-for-privacy@rocketmail.com (Lenny) says: I've posted some dimensions and photos of Lincoln Logs copied from an old issue of "Hands On" which was published by Shopsmith. See them here...
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Let me know if you have trouble reading the measurements.
Well, it's saved looks like, rather than searched for, but it's the same info I was thinking about. Shopsmith has it on their site, if anyone wants to look.
JOAT Let's just take it for granted you don't know what the Hell you're talking about.
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT Web Page Update 16 Jul 2003. Some tunes I like.
Sat, Jul 19, 2003, 3:49am (EDT+4) snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (RWatson767) asks: Joat I looked but did not find. Any clues?
Damn, I got this by e-mail and answered it. If you guys are gonna post, don't e-mail me. And, if you're gonna e-mail me, don't post. But, since I already answered this, I suppose I can answer it for the google challenged.
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Now don't bother me again until the start of the Century of the Fruit Bat.
JOAT Let's just take it for granted you don't know what the Hell you're talking about.
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT Web Page Update 16 Jul 2003. Some tunes I like.
Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 12:06am (EDT+4) snipped-for-privacy@inNOSPAMsightbb.com (Jerry=A0Gilreath) babbles: Fruit bat? Any relation to the fruit fly? Or the fruits of..... nevermind
That's Bat, Bee Aee Tee, Bat, as in Fruit Bat. You probably think I make this crap up, don't you? Ah, you're probably young, and know everything, wait until you're old, and stupid, then you'll know something. Go here, scroll down to "Century of".
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JOAT Let's just take it for granted you don't know what the Hell you're talking about.
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT Web Page Update 19 Jul 2003. Some tunes I like.
Young? Yup, 52 years young. And getting stupider by the day. Not as knowledgeable as my dad was, or you I'm sure, but I'm on my way. Good reading, but never did really get it.
I actually got one of the cars built over the weekend. Still having one milling issue, but the process worked well enough to make about 15 pine and 5 maple cars. Have been practicing on the pine before hitting the maple.
The plans I have are cad files. Not sure if I can convert them to another format with the freeware cad utility I have. If you have a utility that will read cad files I'd be happy to send them to you.
The wheels that I have been using are wood. I bought a bunch of them from Howee's, an online wholesale craft type supplier. I'm using a dowel rod for the axle and it works, almost as well as the purchased trains, but I'd like to find another solution. To me I should be able to spin the wheel it watch it slowly coast to a stop, but that's not the way the cars I build or the cars I buy work. :(
For magnets I bought them from Cherry Tree I think. They are the same magnets as listed on
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with the same nails as well. I found the magnets weak compared to the purchased cars, but they work well enough.
If anyone knows of a source of plastic wheels suitable for train cars that run on brio track, I'd love to know about them. I've looked off and on since March and haven't found anything online.
That's like saying "what kind of trees grow in the US". China's a big place with a wide variety of trees.
However the manufacturer moved production back to the US recently, so they may be back to redwood. Although the Chinese ones could well be redwood--Chinese redwood is a fast-growing big tree--haven't heard of it being used commercially but one never knows.
Production of Lincoln Logs was returned to the USA from China in
2014, so new ones will be made of american woods. Those made in China could be made of anything, as China imports all kinds of woods from all over the world - legally or illegally cut and harvested .
It's amazing how much wood is actually shipped from North America to China for manufacturing goods that come back here. Still cheaper to do that and build stuff using their cheap labor and manufacturing.
I was watching a documentary on the emerging "capitalization" of some areas of China and the middle class that emerging as a result. One status symbol of these "newly rich" Chinese is to have furniture that is made in the USA, because even they know how low the quality is of the goods made by their own people in their own country.
The documentary went on to show the hilarious irony of how the raw wood for their "made in the USA" furniture was shipped from the USA and Canada to China where all the components, pieces, and parts to make the furniture were actually manufactured, then all shipped back to the US where the parts were then "assembled" and glued together into the final product, then shipped back to China where this new middle class buys it so they can brag about the high quality of their expensive furniture that is "made in the USA." :-)
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