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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)

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