P2K 2-8-8-2

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Dave here are some tips to help things out!!

First insulate the rear drawbar with electrical tape or such on top of the 
drawbar. The trailing truck axles will rub against the drawbar and cause a 
quick short when running. The slight uneveness of your track and curves will 
bring this out.

Second is your locomotive set up to the correct speed steps to what your 
system is set for!??

Thirdly, use some Wahl clipper oil to clean up the Drivers and contact 
wheels. Use a drop on each rail and hold the loco and spin the wheels a bit.

Lastly you may of lost good pickup in the locomotive, I have wired a 
Bachmann Aux tender in parallel with the regular tender to make good 
contact. Make sure you use a meter to make sure things are in parallel. I 
have found that all of my Life Like y3's need this treatment after running 
hard on the layout.

With these fixes I have My 4 Class A's running (a bit wild) and 23 y3's 
quite nicely.

ANy questions or observations e mail me at nwpoca at hotmail.com
.
Mike Ritschdorff and crew

>From: nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org
>Reply-To: "N&amp;W Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
>To: nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org
>Subject: Re: P2K 2-8-8-2
>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:13:12 GMT
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>I don't want to change the suject but it is interesting that the BLI 
>running troubles were mentioned in the discussion about the whistle on the 
>Y.  I'm curious as to how many modelers have had or are having problems 
>with the A.  I recently purchased one after saving my railroad's "capital 
>dollars" for investments and improvements.  It's the most expensive loco in 
>my fleet.  With all the accolades about the unit and having seen a few run 
>at train shows I was anticipating a good running and sounding loco.  After 
>operating it for a few hours (total time)it now "jerks" when running 
>forward on straight and curved track.  It worked fine right out of the box. 
>  This is especially noticable when moving at slow speeds but is still 
>present at all speeds.  I checked for binding but did not notice any thing 
>obvious.  I went through the process of resetting the factory default 
>values with no help.  I also made sure that track and wheels of the loco 
>were clean.  By the way I'm operating on
>  a Lenz DCC system.  I did send BLI an email about a week ago with a 
>discription of the problem but have not received a reply as of yet.  Any 
>ideas or helps from list members?  I'm more than willing to give them a 
>try.
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>
>Dave Moorehead
>Milford  Ohio
>
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