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Re: Warning: Train Motor Stress Cracking
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lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:26:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brian Williams writes:
> Warning:
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> At a get together last weekend I again noticed something on one of my
> locomotives that first appeared in 1999: stress cracking of the lower clips
> on the 9v train motor ends. These clips normally retain the bottom of the
> train coupler/buffer element. I, however, used them to attach a 1x4 brick
> in a tender design. The clips failed because they are designed to accept
> the coupler/buffer element which has a slightly thinner wall thickness than
> a standard brick.
Ouch! I use this all the time and it's a potential issue!
Thanks for bringing this up.
++Lar
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| Warning: At a get together last weekend I again noticed something on one of my locomotives that first appeared in 1999: stress cracking of the lower clips on the 9v train motor ends. These clips normally retain the bottom of the train coupler/buffer (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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