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I agree with the consensus I see developing here, that special software is overkill for this purpose. I use the DOS "edit" program to maintain a simple text file ("ROSTER.TXT").
I searched for "buss" and "bus" in NAVPERS books. The only instances I found on the Internet were two in 10548, Electricians Mate 3: "..on generator switchboard bus bars." They may have spelled it "buss" somewhere; but I couldn't find it. There's a lot of misspelling and bad usage around; but I would hope that a publication like CTT would aspire to getting it right. Although the Navy books were my introduction to electronics, after a childhood of messing
Not crossways at all. There's nothing to apologize about. I didn't think there was any offense intended all around.
Try wedging some cardboard between the dimple on the business end of the lever and the fixed contact on the insulating board.
Servoguy, not all locomotives derail on all layouts. And, as I said, weights, magnets, springs, etc., may do the job in any one situation. I don't know who made your 2027; but the Lionel prairie and Adriatic locomotives with the 675-19 pilot truck do have incorrect steering geometry. Correct geometry would be, as you said, axle perpendicular to the track. But, unless the pivot is about equidistant between the pilot axle and the middle driver axle, it won't be perpendicular. Draw a circle
I was brought up short by a statement in Bob Keller's article, "Choose the right transformer", in the January CTT. He says, "While the postwar ZW may win in the studly looks department, a string of postwar Lionel no.1033s hooked up in series may get the job done just as well." The 1033 doesn't put out a lot of voltage, but just two of them could get you up to 32 volts, if that's the point. I think that's as much of a string as I would find useful. He may have meant
He's not looking for turnouts, just for the switch machines to operate them with.
I bent the tang up out of the way, bolted an extension to the truck tongue, drilled and tapped the front motor crossmember, and pivoted the new tongue from a 1/4-inch spacer screwed onto that crossmember. (This is for the later 2-6-4 Adriatic; but I think the arrangement of the pilot truck is very similar--the truck is identical.)
If your pilot truck tends to derail to the inside of curves, you are up against a Lionel design error. Weights, magnets, springs, and elimination of irregularities on (inside) curved rails may do the job. But the real problem is that the front truck oversteers on curves because its tongue is too short; and the complete solution is to lengthen it, moving the pivot back to the vicinity of the front crossmember of the motor, which is a convenient place to drill and tap for a new pivot screw.
You're right in that the transformer doesn't matter. But the relationship is between the voltage at the locomotive and the voltage that the smoke generator is designed for, not between the currents that they draw. Having neither the smoke generator's specifications nor a knowledge of what voltage your train was operating at, I can't say whether the smoke generator burned out from excessive voltage or for some other reason. So an exact replacement might work just fine--or not. If we
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