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Subject: 
Re: Broken Monorail Motor
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:55:56 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz writes:
Has anyone managed to take a monorail motor apart? I just received an
auction lot which included a non-functioning motor (actually, the motor
runs but something's wrong in the gearbox).

FUT: lugnet.trains

Prolly the better question is "has anyone managed to put a motor back
together again and had it work?"   GRIN.

I would actually be somewhat pleased if I got it apart and couldn't get it
working again but still got it together as something for playing with a
multi-car train with a dummy motor providing some of the connection. Think:

monorail-car motor monorail-car monorail-car motor monorail-car

instead of:

monorail-car monorail-car motor monorail-car monorail-car

which is the lashup Mike Walsh and Cary Clark use for their 4 car monorail
trains.

Frank



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  Re: Broken Monorail Motor
 
(...) I've been told that hauling this much weight (which applies to either arrangement) can be really bad for the motors. What experience do you have with this? Do the motors take it well? -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Broken Monorail Motor
 
(...) Prolly the better question is "has anyone managed to put a motor back together again and had it work?" GRIN. But I do not remember seeing any pics of the inside of one (unlike the train motor, there are several out there, as people disassemble (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)

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