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Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:20:16 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote:
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> Dear Anthony,
>
> you are asking a lot of questions and not all of them can be anwered, but I will
> try with some of the most important.
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> > So... was there indeed a production problem with the Super Chief wheels?
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> Definitely these had too high friction due to mismoulded parts done by a
> third-party-supplier.
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> > If so, what was it? Does this problem effect the Super Chief rolling stock?
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> The Super Chief was not running properly. The too high friction ended with
> unwanted breaks. The motors were to weak to overcome the running resitance.
> In the early days of the 9V system 2 motors were able to pull 126 waggons
> (tested in a FGLTC record run!). The Santa Fe trains were partly not even
> running with 1 engine and 3 waggons. Motors overheated and the train stopped.
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> The problem can be seen here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=264039
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> > If not, what was the problem that slowed the train down?
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> Too thick walls in the brick holder were the main problem. The wheels touched
> these walls. Especially in cases when the wheels were not properly done but
> showed a moulding mark.
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> > Was it ever fixed on the production line? If so, about when in the production
> > schedule was it fixed? (i.e. all sets made after a certain date)
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> this has been asked dozens of times at Jake. Nothing but blabla as feedback, as
> far as I know. (quote: maybe the friction is intended by TLC because otherwise
> the cars will run from the table during built up").
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> > Does LEGO still offer replacement wheel sets?
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> If you have trouble with yours, they will surely replace them.
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> > Will they be new grey?
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> What are you talking about? The colour change is that minor - kids will not take
> note of it at all. LEGO never gave any comments which sets are sold in which
> colour. They even sell sets in two colours under the same set number. Anyway:
> this is not a question to discuss in this group unless you want to be timed out
> by some admins. So please stop discussing it here!
>
> > If no help from LEGO is available, is there a way to fix the wheels? I've heard
> > one can 'shave' some of the plastic off the wheels to make them clear the track
> > better, what is the process for this?
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> If you are of age 18+ (in US maybe even 21+?): take a scalpell and cut away a
> part of the too thick walls of the wheel block (the one which is shown in the
> picture I linked above).
> If you are of age less than 22, please thank TLC for giving you wheels with
> friction. These will help you during the building phase as Jake mentioned in
> Zwolle 2003. - Its not a bug it's a feature!
>
> Leg Godt!
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> Ben
Thanks for all the info Ben! I apologize if this question had been discussed ad
naseum already, but I've done several unsuccessful searches for the info. I've
been a castle fan my entire AFOL career, but I've always been interested in
trains, and the chance to get the entire Santa Fe series was impossible to
resist (but I'm not gonna convert! ;) Plus, it really gives me some way to help
TEXLUG out with all the train displays we seem to set up.
To be honest, I've had the train built, but I've never run it. I'm going to
take a close look at my wheels, see if they are dragging like you describe. If
so, I'll call up LEGO and if you'd like, I'll follow this up if they help me out
as to what I get color-wise.
--Anthony
P.S. Of course NOW I want to build one of them dome cars... looks like I'm going
to have to find another #10022... or lots of Bricklink orders. And while I'm at
it, a B unit. Sigh. :)
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| (...) Dear Anthony, I never had the intention to be in any way "harsh" to you. If you felt like that I have to apologize. I just feel still bad with the "new" MEGA-Blok like colors. And I got warned never ever to mention these in LUGNET trains (or I (...) (19 years ago, 25-Feb-06, to lugnet.color, lugnet.trains)
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