@ADCX Rob, I've never had an issue with filling the reservoir with the Labelle product on my other horizontal motors and this one does not seem to "leak". The rollers, old originals and now the new ones are and were clean and were lightly lubricated with CRC 2-26.
I may try switching pickup assemblies and see what the results are.
I am definitely not going to perform a hokey hack of running a wire from the dummy - there should be a proper fix - identifying it is they key.
As for letting it arc, I understand that will cause pitting on the rollers and track and none of my other pre/postwar locomotives (40+ gee - maybe I should do an inventory and actually count) behave like this.
