Modeltrains2021
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Hi i have a mantua prarie and it stops and goes every couple seconds what could solve this?
Sounds like dirty wheels. Google ways to clean model train wheels.By taping on it or moving it a little
If when you put power directly to your motor (which would be clipping a test lead to the motor lead that is screw connected to the tender and touching with the other test lead the loco frame) and it spins the drivers continually. that would say the motor is ok. then clean your wheels and axels.
Turn the throttle off and it will stop going completely.Hi i have a mantua prarie and it stops and goes every couple seconds what could solve this?
Make sure all pickup wheels are clean and shiny, and also clean where the trucks are screwed onto the tender. I’ve had several Mantua locos and when the contacts got dirty they would run erratically. The one exception was one of them had a very thin (almost like a foil) corrugated copper washer between the tender trucks which were steel, and the tender frame, which was die cast. This loco always ran smoother than the others, and I suspect the reason was these copper washers, perhaps there was a chemical reaction between the zinc and steel that prevented good contact, which the copper prevented.Hi i have a mantua prarie and it stops and goes every couple seconds what could solve this?