01-18-2011, 04:47 PM
I hope my message isn't taken the wrong way, or as a lecture of sorts; I would consider myself lucky to have found this sole cause, and so easily, and so easily rectified. I am a real klutz with scale locomotives, but I recently got brave enough to remove the boiler shell, light board, and top tower retainer clip on a BLI Paragon slightly used ATSF 4-8-4 I had just been sent. I was able to fix a split shell with CA, but I couldn't cure the hesitancy in low speed operation. I had to send the locomotive back to the seller. I wouldn't know a bad motor if it was smoking.
I think you got a lemon, but only the motor. I would guess is was thrown together, probably knowingly with parts that looked odd. But it counted at the end of the shift. If you can replace it, and it looks to me as if you can, you can look forward, at long last, to enjoying what otherwise is a fine locomotive. Would love to have one meself.
Crandell
I think you got a lemon, but only the motor. I would guess is was thrown together, probably knowingly with parts that looked odd. But it counted at the end of the shift. If you can replace it, and it looks to me as if you can, you can look forward, at long last, to enjoying what otherwise is a fine locomotive. Would love to have one meself.
Crandell