I recently picked up some extra engines that were used and I am currently having problems with them. Some of them run very rough and emit a smoke smell, the others don'r run at all; however, the light comes on when I set them on the tracks. I was hoping to get some ideas as to what is wrong with them, and possibly how to fix the problems
I think this is about models. If so, try posting it here, in the Model Railroader forum: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88.aspx
emitting smoke - they must be old Alco's!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Wires are packed at the factory with magic smoke, sort of like steam in a pipe. It's what makes this electricity stuff work. You let the smoke out and the wires quit working.
That's the hard part in making repairs: putting the smoke back in.
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The best course is to send it out for repair. From time to time, when I was working in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, a maintenance tech would bring a pcb to Stores, to be sent out for repair, with the note: "All of the smoke has been let out." I would send it, and it would come back with a fresh supply of smoke in it.
Johnny
Redore Wires are packed at the factory with magic smoke, sort of like steam in a pipe. It's what makes this electricity stuff work. You let the smoke out and the wires quit working.
That is Lucas electricity! Come from year of playing with English Sports Cars!
Well, you know why the British drink warm beer, don't you?
Lucas refridgerators.
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