John: >From your description, I'd guess that one or more of the insulated wheels is >contacting a truck side intermittently. Check the side to side movement of the >wheels, even if the axle bearings are tapered. Intermittent shorts do not play >by the same rules as the rest of us, and some of them can be difficult to >track down.
You might even try running a train with the lights out and watch the caboose for some sign of an electrical arc, etc. Bob Nicholson _________________________________________ --- In [email protected], rxman46321@... wrote: > > The Des Plaines group is mystified by an intermittent short in an Overland > C-5 caboose. After regauging the wheels we were finding a short in the > trucks that stops the train momentarily, it restarts, runs for a while then > shorts out in a completely different place on the layout. > > Any ideas from the troops? > > John Griffin > > > [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: [email protected] [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/
