Flip-a-bridge

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Flip-a-bridge

Postby riogrande491 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:52 am

Seems I learn something new every day.

I never knew that you could take an HO through truss bridge, flip it upside down, and call it an O scale bridge.

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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby Tom Dempsey » Sat Jul 22, 2017 12:05 pm

Obviously you don't subscribe to "Overly Creative Marketing Strategies Quarterly".

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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby LarryK » Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:07 pm

Yeah that is the ticket. I thought it looked upside down. Some people!

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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby E7 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 3:17 pm

Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a pony, stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni. Same principle.

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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby robert. » Sat Jul 22, 2017 8:01 pm

He states that it is an ho bridge upside down.
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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby ScaleCraft » Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:17 pm

robert. wrote:He states that it is an ho bridge upside down.

The title of the listing says 0.
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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby Arthur P. Bloom » Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:49 pm

I don't detect fraud. ISTR that a major magazine once did a little article about this very concept of flippage and improvisage.
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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby ScaleCraft » Sun Jul 23, 2017 12:50 am

No, what you may detect is CYA. Listed as 0, literature says H0, so nobody can complain when it isn't what they thought.
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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby Tom Dempsey » Sun Jul 23, 2017 2:48 pm

Fraud, CYA, on EBay, really?

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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Jul 23, 2017 2:52 pm

States right in the listing:

THIS BRIDGE WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT AS AN HO SCALE THROUGH TRUSS BRIDGE. SOME CREATIVE MODELERS DETERMINED THAT WITH MODIFICATION OF THE MOUNTING POINTS, THIS BRIDGE CAN BE USED AS AN O-SCALE DECK SPAN;
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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby E7 » Sun Jul 23, 2017 9:13 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:States right in the listing:

THIS BRIDGE WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT AS AN HO SCALE THROUGH TRUSS BRIDGE. SOME CREATIVE MODELERS DETERMINED THAT WITH MODIFICATION OF THE MOUNTING POINTS, THIS BRIDGE CAN BE USED AS AN O-SCALE DECK SPAN;


Thus my Yankee Doodle reference: Starts out as one thing and call it another. No big deal because as you note, it is plainly stated as to what it was/is.

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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby ScaleCraft » Sun Jul 23, 2017 9:25 pm

That's what I said.
Now, a 160 foot H0 bridge is....80 in 0 (more or less).
But the weight handling is...less than half.
Let's say you have 10" beams in H0, then you've got 5" (more or less) in 0.

Yeah, you can do it...and be creative....sure, why not.
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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:43 am

E7 wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:States right in the listing:

THIS BRIDGE WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT AS AN HO SCALE THROUGH TRUSS BRIDGE. SOME CREATIVE MODELERS DETERMINED THAT WITH MODIFICATION OF THE MOUNTING POINTS, THIS BRIDGE CAN BE USED AS AN O-SCALE DECK SPAN;


Thus my Yankee Doodle reference: Starts out as one thing and call it another. No big deal because as you note, it is plainly stated as to what it was/is.


Right!

Just remember though that many people suffer from selective comprehension, :wink: Wonder who the creative modelers were that determined this.....
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Re: Flip-a-bridge

Postby Wolf » Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:43 am

The main problem I have with such a Flip-a-Bridge (and I have done one
or two shorter ones myself for a trolley line) is that the bridge's stringers
are hung from the floor beams, rather than resting upon them. Hope that
they used high-tensile strength fasteners! :shock: On the model, this inversion
of good engineering can at least be covered over by using ties---lots of ties,
to obstruct the view! :lol: :lol:
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