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Thanks for the link. As for why aluminum became so cheap, not sure. Maybe there was a lot of scrap metal from WWII being recycled? -Stefan- (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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All these polarity-switching solutions presume only 1 train. If you've got 3 trains, and each of them is hitting a block boundary at the same time, you're going to have a short no matter what you do. Best solution for DCC is to get your insulated (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Just so you know, if you want to accomplish the same thing without sawing on your track, get some clear 3M tape and stick it on the inside face of each rail. You have to put some between the tabs connecting to the next piece of rail, too. You (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) Going to try that tonite--I own only 4 loco motors, and 3 are now converted to DCC. Hopefully I'll get my hands on about 3-4 more motors and convert 'em. But tonight I'll run 2 motors on one engine on one DCC channel and test that. I think it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) An easy solution to this is to have two locomotives in the train, each tuned to the same DCC channel. If one loco loses communication, the other will push it through the bad spots... That probably why real trains have two locos, right? :) (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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