@Dan Kenny posted:I commented to a post a few months ago and someone on this forum went to my profile and got my personal email and sent what I considered a threating message to me off the forum. I just deleted it and did not respond back. Hopefully this all stayed within the forum here.
Really??? Over toy trains? LOL! I would have given him my address, and asked him what time he would arrive.
( the only difference between men and boys IS the price of their toys...I guess)
Back to the topic on hand.
Theres alot of over thinking going on here. Probably alot more than at the factory where they make these things.
In fact, theres a video of the factory where a "well known train maufacturer" has a bottle of lamp oil to test smoke units. I'd bet the train with vaseline in the gearbox would last as long as one with Red N' Tacky.
Most worm and internal gears on diesels likely never get greased beyond the factory. The motors have to be pulled and trucks removed from the chassis to do this. I bet alot of folks aren"t doing that because theres no recommendation in the manual. I just serviced 2 legacy diesels where the factory grease was just a liquified memory.
As usual though, its always the 3 rail scale guys causin' trouble.
Just kidding Santiago, great modelling!
