Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:49 am
No but I have permanently attached a wagon with pickups to a small loco.
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Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:25 pm
Hope you don't mind me asking WTD but why did you attach additional pick ups? Are you using live frog or insulfrog points? I have a Peckett on order and am wondering if I will have to do the same.
Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:37 pm
I have live frog on the main lines and insulfrog in the sidings. I run my locos slowly so added the wagon as added insurance.
Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 1:41 pm
Thank you.
Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:51 pm
So...and I'm probably being dim here but...
How do you connect the additional pick ups through to the locomotive?
How do you connect the additional pick ups through to the locomotive?
Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:08 pm
Usually fine flexible wire. You can add one of there too for easier parting of the pair... Example... https://www.expressmodels.co.uk/catalog ... connectors
Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:57 pm
A quick piece of additional information - I have today checked all my track with a spirit level - it's all spot on so this is not the issue! Sighs of relief all round this end!
Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:09 pm
It’s not spirit level flat it’s edge of a steel rule flat. 
Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:09 pm
Re: Keeping it clean
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:30 pm
Forgive me, I don't quite follow. If the level shows dead level - i.e. the bubble is dead in the middle along and across the rails - the track is level surely?Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:09 pm It’s not spirit level flat it’s edge of a steel rule flat.