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wheelsIn lugnet.trains, Kevin Salm wrote:
> The last time my trains were run (at BrickFest) I experienced no end of troubles
> with wheelsets that had all been used before with no apparent problems. Yes,
> some of them are the newer super-friction specials but at the time they were
> installed on my rolling stock they were fine and have been somewhat heavily used
> at previous train shows.
>
> Before I go into more detail I want to ask:
>
> Has anyone else had troubles with wheelsets wearing out? How long does it
> usually take? Is lubrication the answer or only costly replacement?
>
>
> History of the problem:
> 1. I don't run trains at home much at all. My trains all stay boxed up between
> events.
> 2. My track is all clean and most of the track my club uses is less than one
> year old. Dirty track is not the problem.
> 3. At shows, we use super-powered fan-cooled train controllers (and we even
> cooked one of them at BrickFest until it smoked). :) So low power is not the
> problem.
> 4. All my locos have at least one Lego weight brick inside; most have two.
> This provides exceptionally good pulling power, even uphill.
> 5. We run exceptionally long trains at shows. Two locos pulling up to 40
> pieces of equipment and one pusher loco running for 2 or 3 hours non-stop is not
> uncommon for my club. Our average train length is probably 15 pieces of
> apparatus; even our Metroliner has 11 pieces total.
>
> 6. Our last event was for 10 days. For 7 of those days, we had trains moving
> constantly for seven hours each day. Our long train of freight cars probably
> ran for 90 percent of that time. No problems were noticed with any of the
> wheelsets in use at that time.
> 7. At BrickFest, our club had a small local loop in the huge train layout. It
> was loaded with curves such that no matter how much pulling power I could not
> run a train with more than 6 cars for more than a few minutes at a time before
> problems occured.
> 8. I ran one short train (one loco with 2 motors pulling 6 wagons) on the huge,
> master loop track at BrickFest and after about a dozen trips around, I stopped
> the train because I noticed something not right. What I found were several
> wheelsets that made noise and some even had black sticky goo on the wheels. I
> determined that due to excessive friction, the wheels got so hot that the sticky
> goo was actually melted plastic from the wheels and/or the wheel bricks.
>
> 9. Basically, all during BrickFest I had troubles with my trains due to what I
> think are worn out wheelsets. The cost of replacement is not a happy thought. I
> will try lubrication and will also do some filing of the wheel bricks to reduce
> contact friction of the wheel on the wheel brick.
> 10. Oh, yeah, I also had trouble with brand new wheelsets at BrickFest, but
> that was no surprise as they are new super-friction specials being shipped in
> sets these days. Those particular cars were removed from the tracks and packed
> away on the first day of BrickFest. Some cutting and filing will be in order
> there, I guess.
>
> Okay--this got rather long. If you forgot why I started this post, see my
> questions way up at the top of this post. :)
>
>
> __Kevin Salm__
> Lego Users of Central New York
Hello, To all train builders !
Ok, So we have had a fare bit of a talk about 9v train wheels, and their
problems. But I have a few 12v wheels and 7750 wheels that I like to run on 9v
track.Do any of you know how to make 12v wheels go better ? Should I put some
grease on pins ? Any other ideas ?
Many thanks to all of you ,who posted comments on the 9v wheel sets. I have just
modified One of my trains wheels.It goes that fast that it keeps on coming off
the track on the corners.Which is very good ,but also bad.
I am a member of M>LTC (Don't know if there is membership) Melbourne > Lego
train club.We have only had One meeting to date, But I very much injoyed the
first meeting.
I have built a few custom trains . 6,7and 8 wide .But I don't have a Digital
camera ,so sadly I can't post them for everyone to see.
Thanks, Teunis. From Australia.
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