The cattle pen uses two sections of tubular track, not one section. The joint between the two sections is centered on the cattle pen.
Thanks. Turns out I'm ok, just wanted to verify.
After 60 years or so, all the grommets in my cattle car and corral have failed. I ordered replacements on ebay and was disappointed to find that they only have adhesive on one side. The originals were affixed on both sides with carbon tetrachloride. I read Servoguy's method of replacing the grommets with springs which raised this question in my mind. The fingers on the bridge from the corral to the car apply upward pressure to the corrall chutes/walkways when the solenoid is activated. If the springs are only glued on one side, how is contact with the chutes maintained?
Dr. Fu... I would like one of your instruction sets.... I found an horse stockyard on ebay and fooled around with it.... I had one as a kid many many years ago, and wanted it to share with my grandson. It came with a few horses, and I found a set of cows on ebay. It worked for a while, then i relocated it to a side of the layout closer to us.... I have not been ablel to get it working, and dispite many..."Grampa,,, when are the cows and horses going to go????" and countless tinkering -- but isn't that part of the reason we are adicted to this hoby -- the coral hums, but the car doesn't. I did find the Lionel manual online and have tried to reproduce exactly how it was when it was moving, it's still a stationary farm set. For those looking for neat operating things the barel shooters are fun... not the vibrating cars with a ramp, but the ones with a fork lift. One style shoots the barel into the gondola... I had to build a padded side to keep the darn things from shooting into the next room. The other has a fork lift that moves the drum from one side around the house and drops it gently into the car. Grandson really loves the milk car..... and the log ramp. but the stockyard is a work in progress. The problem may be inside the car, as one time last week, I actually got it to momentarily vibrate. but have not been able to do so since.
Thanks ...... these are the things that keep us young..... and a great forum too.
The Doctor is in! I was talking with my girlfriend's cousin, who is getting out of toy trains due to health. He sold me the Lionel service manuals, along with some other stuff. I can copy the service sheets for the Cattle car/Stockyard and send them to the folks that asked for them. Please contact me again and I will get the page copies off via Snail mail. I also am parting out some stock yards if parts are needed, email needs. Till next missive!
RichardM47,send me your snail mail address and I will photocopy my Repair sheets and a tune up piece from a lionel book.
Dr Fu-Manchu
Olsen's has the Postwar Lionel factory service manual online. Access is free. There are even extra pages that Olsen's created to fill in some of the information missing from the original manual:
http://pictures.olsenstoy.com/searchcd1.htm
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