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 Posted - September 28 2006 : 11:37:55 PM
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THE FOLLOWING ATTACHED PICTURES SHOWS WHY YOU NEVER RUN A LOCO OF ANY MANUFACTURER ON CARPETS. ON TYCO'S THIS IS WHY MANY OF THEM PROBABLY DID NOT LAST. I TOOK THIS ENGINE OUT OF A ROCK SHARK AS IT WAS RUNNING SLOW-THE CULPRIT=CARPET FIBER WRAPPED AROUND THE ARMATURE METAL DRIVE GEAR AFTER CLEANING MATERIAL OUT AND OIL AND GREASING IT RAN LIKE A SCALDED DOG.
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 Posted - September 29 2006 : 10:31:34 AM
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Cautionary Tales and other Prohibitions:
The operating instructions enclosed with Tyco sets from the Red Box era as well as the early Brown Box years rather cursorily caution the user to "avoid dust and lint" in train operation. Later, there was a more specific warning about carpet. As I recall that incredibly cheesy "Bach-Man" even goes further in his efforts to scare young operator into avoiding motor contact with carpet fibre.
Now if only they'd also warned us the operational pitfalls of...
Propelling your Midnight Special out a third story walk-up attic window to the concrete sidewalk below, having passed thru a burning left-over christmas wreath via the specially-built Evel Knievel jump ramp made from the Tyco elevated trestle set...
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Filing off the plastic stack and sand domes of your shifter-II to accomodate as many lighted cherry bombs as possible in the engine and tender shell...
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Staging "cornfield meets" between your favorite heavily "road-warrior" customed demolition-derby Tyco engine and whatever neighborhood new-comer who dared take on your "Chatanoogasaurus"...
Tyco should have duly warned errant youth that all of the above have deleterious effects on electric train performance.
MagAc
ps: Sandbox operation is also to be avoided.
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Posted - September 29 2006 : 3:26:17 PM
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That actually looks very much like the Noch static flock grass I just had to weed out of the Atlas SD24 I posted elsewhere. That static grass is a thing of beauty... except when it's too close to the main. In any case, fibers are a motor's worst enemy. So is decayed packing foam.
MagAc- Oh that reminds me of a few stunts. The wires on a Bachmann F7 came undone form the motor, so my dad took it to work to have them soldered (didn't have an iron around the house and I was only 9 or so). 50/50 odds meant it came back (unknowingly) wired in reverse... when I put it on the track and fired it up, I discovered the best gift a kid could ask for (and learned about DC current in the process)!
Also took a Toys R Us LL boxcar (because it was FAKE) and filled it with smoke bombs with the fuse hanging under the frame. Man, I had it all figured out: get it all filled with smoke and then open the doors to simulate a load on fire. Well, something caught on fire all right... [:D]
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Posted - September 29 2006 : 6:27:13 PM
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quote:Cautionary Tales and other Prohibitions:
[Sandbox operation is also to be avoided.]
you forgot the to add a saltwater drive into the ocean via bridge and trestle collapse seriously impairs engine performance or the chlorine dip via the bounce off the diving board.
Originally posted by MagnoliaAcademy - September 29 2006 : 3:31:34 PM
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Edited by - Brianstyco on September 29 2006 6:31:11 PM
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Posted - September 29 2006 : 11:39:51 PM
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Attention serious Tyco operators:
I don't wish to undercut the importance of Brian's cautionary forum topic stating the perils of lint and carpet fiber on Tyco motors. It is a very real--and too often encountered--source of electric motor woes, particularly with already-sensitive animals like Power Torque drives.
The "cautionary" tales on my part are--I trust--merely a little spoonful of humor to help the medicine go down easier. So, fellow Tycoholics, unveil your deepest, darkest, most embarrassing and hitherto unrevealed Tyco snafus, cobble-jobs, smash-ups and staged disasters in the great spirit of Gomez Addams' perpetually smoldering train set...
Magnolia Academy
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Posted - September 30 2006 : 12:03:50 AM
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This is why roadbed track has become so popular with starter sets I'm sure. Plus roadbed track stays together better. Still, airborne carpet fibers and pet hair can land on roadbed track and get sucked up by greased gears. The best enviroment for trains is in a room with hard sealed floors, walls, ceiling, and a door.
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Posted - September 30 2006 : 07:49:33 AM
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just a pennies worth from uk,do not forget that attics contain all sorts,nothing worse than airborne fibre glass dust from insulation materials,apart from damage to you and lungs,it will also cause havoc with your locos,ken
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Posted - September 30 2006 : 10:56:04 AM
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Fellows,
I'll bet "real model train locos", like Atlas, and Athearn, etc., would not be immune to carpet fuzz on their gears even though they are mostly enclosed!. Does that mean that "nitpicking" started with Tyco?
Just for fun,
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