Smudge617
Well-Known Member
Well today was a quiet day, repaired as best I could my Burlington loco after yesterday's disaster, after going happily round for 4 hours, while I was busy doing another couple of conversions and upgrades, it suddenly stopped and fell off the layout for no reason, landed nose down, so smashed the front corner, repaired as best I could, but the steps have had it, replaced the couplings too.
The Atlas UP SD 60 I have, turns out to be a bag of nails, literally, motors fine but the trucks make so much noise, derails at every curve and turnout, so I need to take them apart, but I don't have the sheet, neither does hoseeker, and I can't work out how to get the bottom axle plate off without breaking it, but they look to be the similar to their SD 24 trucks, so it looks like that's a teardown from the top, and I really can't be bothered, so that's staying DC and in the "to do" box for the foreseeable future. (if someone knows how those bottom plates are removed, please let me know how)
Swapped out one of my Hornby point motors, nothing wrong with it, just couldn't secure it to the board properly, so a Peco replacement. Tomorrow I need to swap out the point motor in the top left hand curve, nothing wrong with that one either, simply because it's profile is too high, the SD 60's and 70's catch it with their snow ploughs (pilot's?) as they pass, going to be a total bar steward to swap that one, being in that location, I was hoping I could leave that till I do the revamp, but I think the turnout will have to stay there now, so might as well get it done.
You guys have a great day, and behave while I'm gone.
G'nite.
The Atlas UP SD 60 I have, turns out to be a bag of nails, literally, motors fine but the trucks make so much noise, derails at every curve and turnout, so I need to take them apart, but I don't have the sheet, neither does hoseeker, and I can't work out how to get the bottom axle plate off without breaking it, but they look to be the similar to their SD 24 trucks, so it looks like that's a teardown from the top, and I really can't be bothered, so that's staying DC and in the "to do" box for the foreseeable future. (if someone knows how those bottom plates are removed, please let me know how)
Swapped out one of my Hornby point motors, nothing wrong with it, just couldn't secure it to the board properly, so a Peco replacement. Tomorrow I need to swap out the point motor in the top left hand curve, nothing wrong with that one either, simply because it's profile is too high, the SD 60's and 70's catch it with their snow ploughs (pilot's?) as they pass, going to be a total bar steward to swap that one, being in that location, I was hoping I could leave that till I do the revamp, but I think the turnout will have to stay there now, so might as well get it done.
You guys have a great day, and behave while I'm gone.
G'nite.
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