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 Posted - June 01 2020 : 11:54:04 PM
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Again, being unable to repair the bus, I turned my attention to what I could fix.
This wonderful Aerotrain, a gift from WKS, was giving me a lot of headaches
of late as the British couplers were binding on curves causing derailments galore.
Oddly, they had worked fine for a while, then just started jamming up on curves
and laterally shoving things off the rails.
The Aerotrain, a Varney product, came to me as an empty shell. With a little good
advice from Toptrain, I was able to power it up. It took a bit of trial and error until
I found that using single axle bogies from a spare OO British piece would get the
trailers to track right.
So I used a cheap little chrome chain for costume jewelery and looped and soldered it
around the buffer bars, removing the hooks. Now it corners fine and is back to
running beautifully.
Edited by - Chops124 on June 01 2020 11:55:42 PM
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Posted - June 02 2020 : 07:46:21 AM
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The HObbyline Union Pacific RR passenger set "The Canyon Clipper. Set #455 of 1954.
frank
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" It's a Heck of a Day " !!!
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Posted - June 02 2020 : 08:16:08 AM
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| Great Ingenuity Chops, and nice FA's Frank!
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Posted - June 02 2020 : 1:00:21 PM
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That is a great scene, Frank. Your "Dawn of HO" collection has
to be one of the best.
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