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 Posted - September 28 2006 : 9:17:33 PM
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Been working on some of my PTs. They run now (thanks to Bryanstyco and some improvised traction tires), but I have a new problem:
My layout is scenicked and features paved grade crossings made of plaster and equivalents. I have grooved the pavement between the rails to make flangeways to allow trains to roll freely. I have something like 100 locos and 300 cars that make the cut...
But a couple of my PT-equipped Tycos get stuck, becuase the wheelsets are out of gauge: a full millimeter too narrow.
But I can't get them adjusted! Wheels simply won't budge on the axle.
Anyone else ever encounter, and hopefully solve, this problem?
Edited by - GoingInCirclez on September 28 2006 9:25:23 PM
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 Posted - September 28 2006 : 9:50:19 PM
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Heh, nevermind!
I will NOT be denied. With judicious use of some channel-locks and tongue&groove pliers, and careful but firm application of elbow grease, I was able to pop the plastic wheels off the axles. Man, did they fit those things but tight.
Properly gauged, with cheap traction tires made from children's hair bands and BryansTyco's lubrication instructions, those locos run like champs! Er, for a few laps, anyway... [:P]
My Chessie SD and Rock C430 have now joined the "excursion ops" fleet [:D]
Edited by - GoingInCirclez on September 28 2006 9:51:00 PM
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 Posted - September 29 2006 : 10:53:09 AM
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All the angst and effort devoted to operating Power-Torque Tycos reminds me of the old man's amazement and chagrin at my endless efforts to keep my succession of tired and worn out cars on the road. He never ceased to be amazed at the attention me and my friends lavished on our DeSotos, Hudsons, Kaisers and whatever other tired iron we'd drag in for $50 or less from neighboring barns and garages.
Gauging the wheelsets on Powertorques? My old man would have laughed and likened it to gilding a Rambler.
My favorite component of the story, though, is that no matter how futile the automotive exercise, however, he was right there at my side, ratchet set in hand.
Continued Good Luck, fellow Tyconauts, in keeping these much-maligned but fondly-recalled old Power-Tor-kritters on the rails!
Magnolia Academy
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Posted - September 29 2006 : 3:29:08 PM
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| Ah, a trifecta of independents. I like the old Kaiser Darins myself, but a DeSoto is a monument to excess that can even shame a Cadillac... which is all good. I'd probably have a fleet of AMC's if I had the money and space. Sadly my '88 Thunderbeater is stuck patiently awaiting the attention it so rightfully deserves.
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