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Re: Lubricating axels, etc.
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:28:04 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> No, there has to be something wrong with your wheel blocks. Maybe they have
> collected lots of dust, maybe they have a quality lack....
<try a ramp, here's how>
Excellent advice. If after proper weighting, you are still struggling to get
things moving, there is a problem. Ben's test is good. Also examine
individual wheelsets. If you flick a wheel with your thumb, it should stay
spinning for at least 10's of seconds if not a whole minute (depending on
how hard you flick)
Also, check the bogie plate rotation because if the bogie plates aren't
swiveling, that will cause binding on curves, slowing things down greatly.
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| (...) OK, I tried the flick test on my wheels and none of them spun for 10 seconds. Not my old Metroliner wheels, not my new My Own Train wheels, nothing. The place where my sets are stored is about 80 degrees right now and fairly high humidity. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lubricating axels, etc.
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| (...) [snip] (...) No, there has to be something wrong with your wheel blocks. Maybe they have collected lots of dust, maybe they have a quality lack.... If you put your waggons on a table with straight track on it and you make a slight ramp out of (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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