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Super Chief will be ready for prime-time: a trick to make it work.
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:02:28 GMT
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Dear all,
a German Afol posted the (maybe only his?) solution to the wheelblock trouble:
http://f24.parsimony.net/forum61776/messages/53196.htm
(only in German)
He found out, that most troubles were caused by wheels that touched the wheel
blocks in 12 o'clock position. And of course that is the more the case the
more load is resting on the wheel block. So the wheels might spinn free
without load, but with the superchief above they cause trouble by friction.
He writes that lots of the grey blocks even had a kind of black line (wear of
the wheel rim which touches the block) after a while of use.
So he started to use a scalpell and a 'Dremel' to cut the plastic away in that
area.
http://www.1000steine.de/myimages/usr/album80/aaa.jpg
He did cut a complete window into the block to create room for the wheels to
spin without contact and now his train consists out of Santa Fe, B-unit and 5
heavy cars and ist running very well with 2 motors. (He wrote nothing about 1
motor only, but I think even that might be ok.)
Seems a little bit brutal, but I agree with that guy it will work that way.
The questin is: why is the wheel placed obviously to high into the wheel
blocks? I guess a too short metal axle would be one possible reason for that.
Or maybe the needle end has a wrong angle at its tip?
IF it was the metal part only, I think at least we adults could replace it by
ourselves. Could be cheaper for TLC to send all of us just a
little handful of metal, instead of replacing hundreds of times the whole
wheel block assembly.
Kind Regards,
Ben
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