pharro Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Sorry it's me again. I just bourght myself an a1 graham farish tornado it a great loco and the detail is amazing. It's just keeps wheel spinning on a load of 4 carriges. It runs fine on it's own and I have taken it back to the shop and got a new one but it's still doing the same. This is the only one that does it every other engine works fine. Has anyone else had this problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste234 Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Yes, swap the tender wheelsets for the spare traction tyred ones that come with it. Makes a lot of difference, and give it a good running in, slowly increase the load and it will get there eventually, mine has only got better with running in! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 16, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2012 We run Tornado with 11 Farish mk1s including a sound decoder in the support coach but it would only pull the trsin once the tractikn tiyre wheelset was intalled. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharro Posted June 16, 2012 Author Share Posted June 16, 2012 I have already put on the extra traction tyer on it has improved it a little where did everyone put it. I havnt ran it in I will give it a go tonight. I have ordered some spare traction tyers I will give that ago. Glad to know I'm not alone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste234 Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 You want both the traction tyres on the back two axles of the tender, it seems to work better there! Keep running it in aswell, mine eventually hauled a very impressive rake! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharro Posted June 16, 2012 Author Share Posted June 16, 2012 I got one at each end of the tender i will swap them around tonight and give it a good running in tonight and keep you posted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharro Posted June 17, 2012 Author Share Posted June 17, 2012 I have been doing some tinkering tonight and run it in for an hour each way and moved the traction wheel around and it seems to work fine. Thanks for all your help I have put it away and on to the next thing so this want be the last you hear from me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternKing Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Yes, swap the tender wheelsets for the spare traction tyred ones that come with it. Makes a lot of difference, and give it a good running in, slowly increase the load and it will get there eventually, mine has only got better with running in! I've just purchased a Farish A1 & am experiencing the same problems with traction so after reading this forum I removed the rear wheelsets on the tender & replaced them with the ones with the tyres on but my problems are now compounded in that one of the tyres keeps coming off whilst running but worse still the square bronze fittings wont stay in place making the wheelset constantly loose, is there some some knack to how they fit as the one's I haven't touched are in very firmly? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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