@harmonyards posted:If this particular section sits un-even, it’ll cause all kinds of quirky issues,..the first clue that it’s NOT the Genesis having an issue, is the fact you say the steamers are having difficulty traversing the section. See if you can get down at eye level and look at the track to see any deformation as far as levelness is concerned. .....if you have a screw securing this section to your table top, is it causing the track to be sucked down into a dip on the table top?.....if steamers are lifting wheels, and slipping, something’s uneven for sure,....
Pat
First thing is:
I have not screwed the track to the table yet, and when I do I plan to lave just a bet of a gap between the screw head and the top of the rail, so as not to pull the track into any kind of twist.
I agree that it has to be an unevenness issue, because of the issues with the Steamers, and that is why I mentioned that they struggled there as well.
I have thought that maybe that corner is being pulled a bit out of shape, but the odd thing is that it is only the first piece of track that makes up that corner. The second piece in that corner causes no issues.
I can back that PS3 Genesis thru that piece of track, cleanly, but the instant the first pick-up roller hits that first piece, from either direction, the sparks fly, and the breaker kicks out.
The other PS2 Genesis has no issues. I am running them in a lash-up, and when they are going fast enough to get thru without kicking the breaker, the PS2 shows no sparking at all.
I then ran them both thru separately, tje PS3 makes sparks and kicks the breaker, the PS2 has no issues whatsoever.
Can it just be a bad piece of track?
