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Reply to "Did You Ever Drop A Locomotive?"

It was not a locomotive but my young grandson lost his balance and caught himself with a hand on a train shelf and on my Lionel 16670 TV Camera car.  It broke a piece of the truck on the camera end, the truck with the worm gear on the wheel shaft and gear on the camera rotating shaft.

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Doing a search on OGR forum I found some expensive glues for Delrin type plastic, the slick plastic the truck is made of.  Not wanting to buy and replace this truck or to buy more glue as I have two bags full in the refrigerator, I made a little test and glued a piece of tin to the truck after scratching up two small areas on the truck, out of sight.  I used some my "go to" JB Weld metal filled epoxy and glued a second piece with E6000 Industrial Strength Adhesive, an Aleene's tacky glue type clear, sticky flexible glue.  After 24 hours the both were hard to break off but the E6000 held better.

I make a backup piece from some tin from a 9 v battery case as the place where the truck broke had a small area to glue together.  This truck has to be strong to handle the gear on the TV rotating mechanism.

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I glued the back up piece on the back of the truck, after scratching the area well with a sharp knife, with E6000 adhesive and clamped it with two cloths pin homemade pointy nosed clamps.

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So far it seems to work but I will be careful and treat the TV car with loving care.

Charlie

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