My Dark Diesel Side

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Prosecution of posting before.


One reason was to make a redistribution of grease. Very often, so in this case too, the grease was applied by the worker into the gearbox, but it sits just in a pile in a corner were it is useless. The bearing stud of the gears are running completely dry and in some cases the worms too. This circumstance max be the mysterios case why some lose are running noisy.
So i took a small screwdriver and replaced the grease to that locations were it belongs to.





Next was creating a better curent pcik up. As deliverd the Atlas RSDs habe current pick up only from the wheels of outer and middle axles.
Fortunately the axle bearing inserts are able to rock a little bit around their center holes and create in this manner a sort of equalizing.
So i soldered 0.3mm bronze wire onto the bearings.





They wipe on the wheels of the inner axles. So a 12-point current pick up was made.





Some brass parts made their way onto this loco.















After all, not a to 100% perfect loco may be originated, but a hassle free running loco for running on the layout and for FREMO meetings.

Cheers Lutz