Bob: If you still have the old open frame motor in it, you may have too much play in the commutator. Pretty easy fix with some thrust washers.
Bob Nicholson _______________________________ --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, I'm a lot younger than Ed, but my S habit goes back a little > further. In high school I started to save my mowing money ($1 per week) > with the idea of the Enhorning F or the Dockside. The Dockside was $25 > and the F unit was $26. I went the cheap route and got the Dockside. > Of course I hadn't figured in the cost of a bottle of Floquil engine > black @.60! That engine, now with scale drivers, extra detail, and DCC > still runs the layout fairly well, although it runs a lot better > backward than forward. Never have figured that one out! > > Actually that is a great 'test bed' engine for dead spots on turnouts. > If that little guy makes it through a turnout a bigger engine will do > just fine. > > Complaining about something is mostly likely due to our increasing > age/desire to accomplish something before the fire goes out! > > Bob Werre > > > > > ed_loizeaux wrote: > > > > since there > > > was so little else available at the time > > > Bob Nicholson > > > > I remember well what was available in S scale at the moment I made the > > big decision. There was the REX 2-6-0, the REX Dockside, Enhorning F- > > units (promised), the REX 0-6-0 (promised), and a NYC Hudson AF > > conversion kit from S SCALE LOCO & SUPPLY. There may have been others, > > but if so they have been forgotten. So I jumped in with a grand total > > of five or six locos on the market (in 1968 or 1969) and having no > > interest at all in two of them. But look at what we have now. And > > folks are still complaining. Cheers...Ed L. > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
