Happy New Year to all,
In the last year I have built a new track with amonst others three Peco #6 curved Insulfrog turnouts. It all works well with diesel type DCC loco's. for Xmas my son received his first steam loco with sound. The loco however stalls at two of the curved frogs and starts again maybe a second later. The loco will go thru the turnout tender first in either direction without any problems. My system is DCC with a Digitrax Zepher Command and the new steam loco is our first sound item.
On examination of the wipers I noticed that the second to front set of wheels were not touching the wheels so I followed Jim Banners tutorial posted in Feb 2007 and tried to tease the wipers to touch the wheels. Jim's tutorial is excellent however, my fingers are still in their apprenticeship phase. I think I made it worse and now another Atlas #6 (isolated frog type ) turnout is involved with the same symtoms intermittingly.
It is hard to believe that all the wheels need to be touching over a 3/8" short frog. Do I need to order another underframe with the wipers (I actually don't believe that I made the wipers worse I know I did) or should I perserver to get all wipers touching as the cure?
In the last year I have built a new track with amonst others three Peco #6 curved Insulfrog turnouts. It all works well with diesel type DCC loco's. for Xmas my son received his first steam loco with sound. The loco however stalls at two of the curved frogs and starts again maybe a second later. The loco will go thru the turnout tender first in either direction without any problems. My system is DCC with a Digitrax Zepher Command and the new steam loco is our first sound item.
On examination of the wipers I noticed that the second to front set of wheels were not touching the wheels so I followed Jim Banners tutorial posted in Feb 2007 and tried to tease the wipers to touch the wheels. Jim's tutorial is excellent however, my fingers are still in their apprenticeship phase. I think I made it worse and now another Atlas #6 (isolated frog type ) turnout is involved with the same symtoms intermittingly.
It is hard to believe that all the wheels need to be touching over a 3/8" short frog. Do I need to order another underframe with the wipers (I actually don't believe that I made the wipers worse I know I did) or should I perserver to get all wipers touching as the cure?