Man I had a really bad fall to my Atheran switcher with the diecast Carey Locomotive Works Alco S-2 body!Broke the front and rear pilots clean off and the front plate with the handrails skittered off and it took me a long time to find it! I was so bummed I put the parts in the box and didn't look at it for a week! I have heard good things about JB Weld epoxy so I used it to get it back together.Not a thing of beauty but she is whole again.Luckily the Atheran drive unit was undamaged.
I enlarged the picture, and it looks good.
I'll bet that Cary body is heavy.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
It is quite heavy accounts for all of the damage incurred in the fall!
Can you pls share how it fell? I ask b/c that can serve as a lesson learned. Any way to avoid disaster is a good one!
Those Cary bodies are VERY heavy - if still using the original Athearn sintered wheels, one of those can probably pull a real railcar. Typical damage for a heavy cast piece - parts just snap clean off.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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My layout is still in the open-grid benchwork phase. It's been like that for several months... Although my trackwork is sound, one of my locos took the big leap and one of the tender steps broke. I was wondering if someone ever thought of placing some kind of temporary net above the benchwork to prevent these acrobatic falls.
Simon
Bought a new engine recetly and after testing it slipped out of my hands onto mostly carpet, may have been fine except a tool was there also, sheared off back steps but it still runs fine,
JB Weld workswell but takes awhile to set ...it was easy to put the switcher in the bench vise so that gravity works for you.
philo426 Well since it is so heavy I like to use it to polish steel Bachmann EZ track after the initial wipedown with alcohol.Accidentially bumped the throttle and she flew off of the table!
I was messing with my drawrs the throttle sits on and same thing here, bumped the trottle to 100 and my genesis gp7 took off twards the end of the table, I was lucky and quick enough to grab it about a foot off the ground. Only suffered one broken coupler!
With my messed up right arm, I drop enough equipment already.
Fortunately, I have never had a full-throttle run off. (knocking on wood)
A real mess up totally on me !I have had this Switcher for over 30 years and it has always been rock solid.I think the diecast body absorbed the impact and protected the drive mechanism.Added a couple Kadee #5s for fun!
snjroy I was wondering if someone ever thought of placing some kind of temporary net above the benchwork ......
I guess that would work if things fell upward. Do you have gravity inversions in your neighborhood?
Ringo58I was messing with my drawrs
Somehow this is too much information.
maxman snjroy I was wondering if someone ever thought of placing some kind of temporary net above the benchwork ...... I guess that would work if things fell upward. Do you have gravity inversions in your neighborhood?
Well, if you are in Australia.....