My active American Flyer repair project is a 970 Walking Brake man car. I think this is the first one I've had apart. Very clever mechanism, with a vibrator coil shaking a fibrous mat to move along a slug with a nappy pad on the bottom.
The one I have is nice and clean on the inside. The mat and the nappy pad seem to be in good shape.
I find that in order to get to work, the coil has to be adjusted to the point where it is fairly noisy. Is that how these pieces work, or do I have something out of wack?
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