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Re: Is the Emerald Night (PF) Slow?
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:43:23 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Chris Gray wrote:
> Bruce S. Chamberlain wrote:
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> > Slower is more realistic and will not derail on corners. I always run my steam
> > engines as slow as I can without stalling. The better question is how many cars
> > can it pull slowly and how long does the battery last?
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> Pulling more cars was one of the first things I tried. I was just using a simple
> oval track, so lots of turning. Half of the cars I used were 4-wheel ones, which
> have lots of friction on the corners. I had a total of 8 cars on it, and it pulled
> them fine. However, the tan bevel gear which drives the front axle came off, with
> a fairly loud grinding noise. If you can push the axle further out, to get more
> hold on that bevel gear, it works better.
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> One of the things I noticed on mine is that the floating wheels don't really turn
> that much. I believe the problem is that of too much friction from the axle/pin
> that holds the wheels - that's not an ideal mount for wheels (I think the pin end
> is rubbing on the stuff behind it). If you take off the connecting rods, note that
> only the front driver wheels are actually driving. When running that way, one of
> the rear driving wheels would actually turn backwards - I think the spacing between
> them is small enough that they are rubbing slightly. It could be that I don't have
> the elastic bands on straight, and so they are sticking out a bit more than they
> should.
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> I'm waiting for the set that just has one more passenger car!
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> -Chris Gray (NALUG)
Hi chris,
Glad to read that i'm not the only one with the gear problem.
Anyone else with this problem?
I did some modifications on the train, and it runs now verry smooth, and over 3h
with 6 1800mAH Ni-MH batteries and two 52 stud long passenger cars.
Modifications are very simple and almost not noticeble on the outside.
So, if you don't tell anyone, they will never notice it.
Regards,
Ludo
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