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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:32 am

Another odd fan powered vehicle, this time on a 5 inch gauge garden railway!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrh1Xt3yCKs
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Post by Big Al » Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:29 pm

A fine turn of speed , bit dodgy for any wildlife though. Image
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Post by laurence703 » Tue Dec 17, 2013 6:20 pm

I guess the shikasen body is rather appropriate then! would certainly be an entertaining thing to watch!
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Post by laalratty » Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:02 pm

That is brilliant, runs at a sort of speed that should keep most at the local model engineering society happy...
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Post by Gremlin » Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:41 pm

wouldn't want to get my hand near the rear of that beast
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Re: Fan power

Post by kandnwlr » Sat Mar 08, 2014 10:59 am

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:93880 wrote:Another odd fan powered vehicle, this time on a 5 inch gauge garden railway!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrh1Xt3yCKs
Didn´t LGB have a track-powered version some years back?
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Post by philipy » Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:44 am

Gremlin:93927 wrote:wouldn't want to get my hand near the rear of that beast
Many years ago, at school, we had a prop driven RC car, powered by a 1.5cc aircraft diesel engine. Flicking it over to start it one evening , it suddenly roared into life and the prop was promptly stopped by one of my fingers.....!

I did keep the finger tip fortunately but still have scar. However the positive thing was that having a large 'dolly' on my right hand got me a 'be kind' note attached to my O level English resit a couple of days later and managed to pass at the third attempt!! :lol: :lol:
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