Dave Vollmer wrote: Tracklayer wrote: Hey guys.Stop the presses!. I just came up with a quick, cheap fix for my Lt. Mt. using a small piece of foam rubber that I wedged between the boiler and front guide wheels and it works great. So far it's ran about an hour pulling twelve cars without any problems - which is a first for that particular loco...TracklayerClever! I would not have thought of that. Can you see the foam from the side or do the cylinders hide it?I was able to keep the pilot truck on the rails by loosening the screw that retains it. But even so, I can't get my 4-8-2 to stay on my 13.5" radius curves (not enough driver side-play)... So she stays on my 15" radius curves.Here she is, having been completely rebuilt as a Pennsy M1 (I extended the frame as well).But if Bachmann Spectrum's new heavy 4-8-2 ends up being a better puller, I'm willing to rebuilt this engine with the mechanism from the heavy 4-8-2. I need her to be a big puller, and right now she's not.
Tracklayer wrote: Hey guys.Stop the presses!. I just came up with a quick, cheap fix for my Lt. Mt. using a small piece of foam rubber that I wedged between the boiler and front guide wheels and it works great. So far it's ran about an hour pulling twelve cars without any problems - which is a first for that particular loco...Tracklayer
Hey guys.
Stop the presses!. I just came up with a quick, cheap fix for my Lt. Mt. using a small piece of foam rubber that I wedged between the boiler and front guide wheels and it works great. So far it's ran about an hour pulling twelve cars without any problems - which is a first for that particular loco...
Tracklayer
Clever! I would not have thought of that. Can you see the foam from the side or do the cylinders hide it?
I was able to keep the pilot truck on the rails by loosening the screw that retains it. But even so, I can't get my 4-8-2 to stay on my 13.5" radius curves (not enough driver side-play)... So she stays on my 15" radius curves.
Here she is, having been completely rebuilt as a Pennsy M1 (I extended the frame as well).
But if Bachmann Spectrum's new heavy 4-8-2 ends up being a better puller, I'm willing to rebuilt this engine with the mechanism from the heavy 4-8-2. I need her to be a big puller, and right now she's not.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's