My big prize from S fest (lots of smaller prizes, too) and my first S scale
brass.
Generally in good shape, I've started doing the straightening and resoldering
that
is common for Korean imports.
Two issues to address, seeking counsel from those who own or have owned them:
First, the previous owner had started to install DCC, so I had to rewire the
motor leads;
the lead to the insulated tender drawbar pin was obvious, but not so much the
lead to
the locomotive frame. I first connected it to the top of the screw holding the
torque arm
but that resulted in sporadic loss of contact; then I mounted it between the
frame and
the spring on the screw and that seems to work all right. How was it done as
it came
from Ajin?
Second, the Walschaert eccentric cranks use a set screw to locate them, but the
hole in the crank pin to accept the set screw is mislocated, at least for the
angle
of the crank on all the prototype photos. Was this true of most of the rest of
the
run?
Since it has been more than twenty years since these came in, that may have been
addressed in published reviews at the time, but I wasn't in S scale back then.
The
seller of the locomotive generously also threw in a complete run of the Ed
Loizeaux/
Dick Karnes S magazine, which I've found very helpful in tracing the history of
many
of the freight cars I've been buying over the past two years.
If I get around to painting it, I plan on lettering it for Rutland, which had
four of them.
Brother Tuson may already have done at least one that way.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
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