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Re: Broken Monorail Motor
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:40:40 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Walsh writes:
Both Cary and I have run ours litterally non-stop for two days at the last
two train shows we have done and have not seen any adversere effects on the
motor.  The gearing in the monorail motor appears to be pretty strong and
the extra weight of an additional two cars doesn't seem to be that much of
an issue.

Cool.  Have you run one on a track that includes reverses, or did the
monorails just run loops?  I wonder if the additional weight might cause a
bit of trouble when the motor suddenly switches directions.

--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com



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"Tony Hafner" <hafhead@PANTSplanetquake.com> wrote in message news:Gq1nvs.I13@lugnet.com... (...) last (...) the (...) of (...) The reversing switches work just fine, we have had some problems with using the automated switching feature of the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)

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"Tony Hafner" <hafhead@PANTSplanetquake.com> wrote in message news:Gq045z.Fsw@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) Think: (...) monorail (...) have (...) Actually, Cary and I have our four car monorail trains configured differently. Cary's has the motor (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)

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