Modern Rolling Stock

[Schraddel]

Hello,

@TMo
Wait a little bit.


The rear truck.


The front truck. Manufacturing as usual. And as usual this loco with it's long frame and it's also long pivot base for the trucks is stiff.


O.k. let's grip some coarse rasp and take some action to the trucks.
This photo shows the rear truck afterwards.


The front truck. Still more material shaved off.


To create some more space for my beloved Zimo double-speaker, some material was removed from the weight casting with the aid of my bench grinder.


And my invest in a hassle free future, additional wipers for all half axles. As long the bearings are new and clean this type of pick up works flawless.
But not long into the future this not more the case. Inevitable some dirt, oil, grease will find it's way into the bearings. Or fibres were picked and wound around the axles and forming fluff balls. All of these will hamper the flow of current bewen rails and decoder (motor). The loco will become unreliable and tends to stall although wheels and rails are clean. The worst cases i had experienced were with Walthers Proto locos. Even new and shiny locos had probems with a reliable current pick up and were stalling. In all of these cases later mounted wipers solved the problem effective.


Lutz