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[quote user="Santa Fe Kent"]<p>That leads me to my next idea; how about if we forget about scale!</p><p> O guage has done this for nearly a century without any problems!</p><p>[/quote]</p><p> </p><p>Hello Kent,</p><p> </p><p>You're not far off the mark, "O" is an excellent example of having things go sideways.</p><p>NMRA "O" scale = 1:48 Naturally on 32mm track which is interesting since 1435mm (4ft 8.5") devided by 48 results in 29,9mm for the track gauge.</p><p> </p><p>NEM-MOROP "O" scale = 1:45 on 32mm track. 1435:45=31.9mm not "spot on" but tolerable. </p><p> </p><p>To sum it up, yes "LS" probably took after "O". Lots of funny math! <span class="smiley">[;)]</span><span class="smiley">[V]</span><span class="smiley">[:)] Back in the "dark ages" we used to do calculations with a sliderule. That was a lot closer than some of the stuff that was calculated after the invention of the electronic calculator. </span><span class="smiley">[:D]</span><span class="smiley">[8D]</span><span class="smiley">[:D]</span></p><p> </p><p>Best regards</p><p> </p><p>ER </p>
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