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The Current State of Play

Pugsley

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This is how things are at the moment:

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I hate electrical fault finding, but with much reluctance I have broken out the multimeter to try and find out why my 37 disgraced itself a few weekends ago, where it made all the right noises, but didn't actually do anything. I've put the first bogie on its 'custom stand' for easier access :D

 

Fault number one was found quite quickly - one of the connections to the centre motor on the No 1 bogie is a bit dodgy, so that will have to be remade. Soldering in that confined space is certainly going to be interesting! I can't drop the motor out, as a bit of poor design has led to the motors being captive once the torque reaction arms are in place. If I ever do this again, that is going to have to be addressed.

 

Closer inspection of the other soldered joints has uncovered another couple of areas of, shall we say, comedy soldering, which is probably also not helping the cause. Once these have also been redone, things should work a lot better.

 

On the plus side, the pick-ups are all OK, well, except for the one that has dropped off, but we'll gloss over that.

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Mikkel
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Intriguing photo, and clearly also an intriguing soldering challenge! I'm sure you'll work it out.

 

it made all the right noises, but didn't actually do anything

 

I have some colleagues who are like that. Can you fix them too? :-)

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Pugsley

I have some colleagues who are like that. Can you fix them too? :-)

Sorry, I also have some of those, so will be sorting those out first. When that's done, I'll consider it ;)

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Western Star

I note the reference to "comedy soldering"... and did not see your offer to join the WT Olympic "Comedy" team as suggested therein.

 

On a more positive note, you must be close to getting the engine to perform correctly so when / where is the next outing?

 

regards, Graham

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Pugsley

I had no idea that it was a team sport!

 

I don't know when or where the next outing will be yet, I guess it depends if the S7 test track is going to be at Bristol in January. If it is, then it may make an appearance there. It might even be painted at that stage!

 

If not, I'm not sure when it will be although I have been challenged to run it on Aberbeeg and see how much it will pull up the hill, which could be interesting :)

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