I have always liked the ACE trucks. For some number of years before going out of business they offered a delrin bearing insert in lieu of the brass. You had to drill out the holes in the sideframe for the wider outer diameter of the bearing. That decreased the friction.
I particularly like them under weighted PRS cars. There is something about the spring resistance and something else that makes for a nice ride and creates, for me, a satisfying hollowish resonance (have to have the steel wheels) in the cars when they go over gaps, joints and through turnouts. No other truck does that. A drawback is that the bolster is wide enough for highrail wheels. They sold a spacer with the delrin bearings that you had to slide over the bearing before inserting into the frames. With .110 wheels there was still a fair amount of side-to-side slack. This was a problem for my trickiest track work - a double crossover on a curve- where some of the cars with ACE trucks picked one frog in one direction only. I rectified that by sliding some brass washers with an inner diameter that just fit over the ends of the axles. The pointed axle trucks never picked that frog. Ben Trousdale --- In [email protected], Alex Binkley <alex.binkley@...> wrote: > > > Great explanation, Rusty. Thank You. I like the few ACE RB trucks that I have > but they could roll better. A solution may be at hand. > cheers > > > > To: [email protected] > > From: thebrassbasher@... > > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:10:43 +0000 > > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} S Scale Loco & Supply new stainless steel wheels > > > > Blunt ended axles are for?????? > > For the thousands of Nord, Northeastern, ACE and a several other trucks. > > For myself all that I've made for myself and many that I've converted from > > the pointed to the blunt axle ended. it makes it a lot easier to make > > Acetal bearings. There is no standard length of pointed axle ends in S > > scale. The SHS are not the same length others and when it comes to critical > ------------------------------------ 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/
