Reply to "when do you replace traction tires?"

walt rappOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Dave Zucal posted:
WALT, you should also check your axles for cross line. Set the engine down on a piece of glass and see if all drive wheel flanges touch the glass and the engine doesn't teeter. Also watch the engine when it's running to see if it wobbles.

thanks for the suggestions Dave. I already checked that the wheels are making good contact when I checked to see if the traction tires were actually contacting the rails.

The engine seems to sit solidly and I haven't noticed it wobbling.

I'm just getting used to tin-plate after 50 years of "non-tin-plate", the last 20 being all MTH Railking stuff. When I first ran both this train and my Baby Blue Comet passenger set I was flipping out because all of the cars wobbled!!! I called a buddy that's into tin-plate to come over. He said "That's tin-plate for you. It's normal".

- walt

3/26/197:14 AM

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