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 Posted - May 22 2010 : 10:43:51 PM
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Anyone ever try to dummy a 2-8-0 tender drive loco before? Thought it would be neat to do a double header.
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Posted - May 22 2010 : 11:29:16 PM
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| Can't see why it couldn't be done...just gut the housing, removing all the spur gears and you're on your way.
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 12:50:36 PM
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i'd like to know how to prevent the engine or tender from derailing.
works fine going backwards
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 2:01:12 PM
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weigh the items first with motors etc,then without,replace the difference approx or else you may strain the pulling loco with to much weight,easy to find,ken
Edited by - catfordken on June 29 2010 2:03:31 PM
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 10:57:32 PM
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sorry i wasn't clear. The tender is the power unit. the loco is the dummy.
Going backwards is fine, going forward with the tender pushing have constant derails. Not a good design
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Posted - June 30 2010 : 06:31:41 AM
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| sounds like its weight or lake of it thats causing the problem ken
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Posted - June 30 2010 : 08:17:22 AM
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Derf, make sure that the loco's wheels are in gauge, because if they are too wide or too narrow, derailments will be likely. If you don't have an NMRA gauge, you can buy them online or at a local hobby shop. If you're still running the tender without traction tires that could do it too, or maybe the flanges hitting the spike heads just sounds like it.
Even a tender drive loco shouldn't derail if everything is adjusted properly.
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Posted - June 30 2010 : 08:43:12 AM
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| hi derf,NickelPlate759 is right,i assumed that all the parameters regards that were correct,thought that you were just removing motor from otherwise ok loco,but if you have removed the motor from tender,it will be way underweight,and could flip off the track pulling loco with it,ken
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