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BLI 4-8-4 gear problem. Anyone else have the same problem?
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<p>I remember one of my older steam was quite the clicker...</p><p>Here is what I did:</p><p>Sat the engine upside down in the cradle.</p><p>Fed it power from the wires to track power.</p><p>As it ran very slowly, looked over both sides from directly above (OR from below... if that suits you) the upside down model and looked for drive rod binding, rubbing, screwheads banging into the other rods etc.</p><p>I used a toothpick to literally feel out the source of the "Click" just like I used to do with checking valves on the V8 long ago by putting a pencil onto the head cover and feeling each over the individual cylinders. I would start below each axle and see if I can feel the click at the same moment hearing it. Then work up towards the brake hangers and finally into the boiler and to the Motor, gear towers and shafts.</p><p>If the click is present is should be coming from one spot somewhere on the whole loco.</p><p>If that does not help then I guess getting a HO scale Doctor's ear tube and going over everything will do it.</p><p>By the way, apologies for the thinking you bought two engines. Now I understand what happened.</p><p>All of these recent postings about problems with what is supposed to be very fine models with high levels of engineering seems to me that somebody somewhere is no longer caring about quality control. It's almost like they toss pallets of these engines into the container and slam it down onto stacks of other containers with one eye on the "Quitting time" over there across the Pacific Ocean.</p>
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