Do you put the 9 volt battery on your(lionel,atlas) locomotives? Acid Be Careful !!!!!

[ben10ben]

"They leak an ALKALINE substance, which is equally nasty, but it's not ACID."

That's exactly why they're called alkaline :)

For that reason, the best thing to use to clean up leaked electrolyte is distilled white vinegar. Reacting vinegar with potassium hyrdroxide gives you water and potassium acetate, both relatively harmless.

Putting baking soda on spilled electrolyte from an alkaline battery, as I've seen sugested on here before, would be pointless and do absolutely nothing. 

[Buckeye Riveter]

"They leak an ALKALINE substance, which is equally nasty, but it's not ACID."

That's exactly why they're called alkaline :)

For that reason, the best thing to use to clean up leaked electrolyte is distilled white vinegar. Reacting vinegar with potassium hyrdroxide gives you water and potassium acetate, both relatively harmless.

Putting baking soda on spilled electrolyte from an alkaline battery, as I've seen sugested on here before, would be pointless and do absolutely nothing. 

Now I know why I didn't put any batteries in my engines including the G Scale Bachmans.  The LGB Chicken Dance Car must have a battery to work.  Any suggestions ?  Remember G scale is DC. 

Ben, you sure know all the chemistry that I have thankfully forgotten. I hated organic chemistry, but loved physics, dynamics, statics, strength and thermo.

[1688torpedo]

 Buckeye-  I've never heard of an LGB Chicken Dance Car Before. Must be the version where a Figure of Col. Sander's Chases a Chicken around a Gondola with a Pitchfork in his hands! At least I've never seen a review by Bob Keller of such a Car in CTT! If you buy Metal Wheelsets for the Chicken Car you should be able to get DC Current to operate the Col.Sander's/ Chicken Car & you will not need a Battery. Take Care.

[Anonymous]

I have a question that falls in line with Roy's last comment. 

Is there a way to use the AUX 5 Key and shut all your engines down at once on the layout so that you can hear the shutdown sequence?   

I was thinking that if you assigned all your engines to say, TR 5, and then did a TR 5, AUX 5, it would shut them all down at the same time, but then I started thinking this would disable the horns, bells, crewtalk (?) on those units not denoted as the lead engine in a lashup.   

Hello,

This is my first post, and I thought I would quickly address this persons question: 

The answere is yes you can....BUT....if you do assign all engines to TR-5, then you cannot assign them to another "Train".  A single engine can only be asigned to one "Train" at a time.  In this case, as long as you run ALL engines separatly or ALL lashed together as TR-5, the system will work perfectly.

As far as loosing other sound functions, you will not miss anything because you can still address the locomotives indvidualy and have access all their normal features.  You can even do this while they are lashed together & running.  Just make sure you don't mess with the direction, speed, etc...

I have two TMCC locos lashed as TR-1, and love that they shut-down simultaniously when AUX-5 is pressed...

Sean. 

[Buckeye Riveter]

Thanks. And to the CTT Forum.