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I’m coming into the monorail world late and have been acquiring track and parts
on Bricklink. I have two motors and both seem to run very slowly. They really
seem to labor going up-hill.
I haven’t run the engines enough to believe I might have burnt them out. All my
metal to metal contacts appear to be clean. My batteries are new. Can anyone
offer me some advice? Are there any steps I can take to clean the engine and
make it more efficient?
Felix
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| (...) Firstly, how heavy is your train? You've got a battery-powered, gear-driven drive system that doesn't run very fast under the best conditions, so unless you strip it down to the bare essentials (one sled, one motor, one battery box, and just (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Monorail trains just run slow. Just how slow depends on your perspective. I just ran two sets of monorail at the NASM (National Air and Space Museum) yesterday. The new monorail set I just acquired last weekend seemed to move a bit faster than (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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