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Re: Super Chief Weight Issues /possibly a quality issue of the ML?
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:18:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ahui Herrera writes:
> Maybe this is just on my layout since it's on the rug and not a 'real' flat
> surface. Last night, I connected the #10001 Metorlinear with the superchief
> engine in the front just to see it in motion and I notice that my poor train
> could not move it. The engine(s) kept slipping. I got a engine on the
> front and back of the metrolinear an the middle passanger car. After this I
> picked up the super chief and did notice that it's heavier than my other
> cars. So what is my question? Well with the super chief being so heavy is
> one motor as the instructions show enough to actually pull several cars?
> I'm think that perhaps not. Perhaps an A and B unit with the B unit using 2
> motors and the A using 1 might be enough to pull both heavy engines and say
> 4 cars. Has anyone tried this or knows the limit of how many cars 1 super
> chief with 1 motor can handle?
>
> -AHui
Dear Ahui,
as written in the other answers more than 2 motors does not appear to be very
helpful.
2 motors (with enough weight on their Back) should be able to pull up to over
100 waggons (has been testet)!
So there are 3 aspects: the 4558 metro liner is not heavy enough. Your
grund surface is worse than discribed or point 3 (and I would recoomend to
check this out):
- it has been mentioned in some other threads before (especially discussed at
the German 1000steine.de board), that the wheel sets of the My Own trains and
the 10001 Legend ML have a quality "problem".
Lots of them do not spin as easy as we have known it so far from the 9V train
stuff. If your metroline has a (few) defected wheelsets, than it is no wonder
the train will have problems in its running behaviour.
Has anybody shared this observetion? None-round wheels, heavy running wheels,
noise making wheels?
Kind Regards,
Ben
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