--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Olde Tymer Talk
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 11:05 PM
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] .com, 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.
> >
> >
>
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