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Hello all. At our meeting last night, we noticed that our cars were
derailing in some of the switchs. I searched the train group and couldn't
find any reference to this. We spent some time examining things and came to
a couple of conclusions:
1. There is not enough height clearence in the switch for the wheel to go
through the point. Every time it goes through, it gets pushed up from below.
Has anyone tried to Dremel out a deeper channel to avoid this?
2. There is a tab that looks kind of like this \______/ on the rail that is
opposite the gap where the track splits. If you have a short car with
fixed wheels, because they don't rotate and follow the curve of the track,
they hit the tab square on when taking the non-straight path like this:
<====>\______/
This causes the car to derail. The tab isn't attached all the way at each
end. It looks like you could somehow heat up the ends of the tab and bend
it to be a wider and smoother opening so this didn't occur. Has any noticed
this and tried any solutions to fix it?
Regards,
Steve Martin
IndyLUG
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 | | Re: Points derailing cars
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| I've tried your suggestions in the past... :-( DON'T do it... Scroll down... (...) You'll certainly ruin 1 or more integrated wires. Fixing these is a hell of a job. Better solution: lower te radius of the wheels 0,3-0,5 mm. With an electr. drilling (...) (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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