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Hi Chris, Looking like you are on top of the issues..... even if the elves are still having after effects!How about putting your camera on a selfie stick & taping it to the radio control unit?Cheers KerrinPS.....now waiting for future video's of you playing in the snow!
Quote from: Steamer5 on September 24, 2017, 02:34:16 AMHi Chris, Looking like you are on top of the issues..... even if the elves are still having after effects!How about putting your camera on a selfie stick & taping it to the radio control unit?Cheers KerrinPS.....now waiting for future video's of you playing in the snow!Trying not to think about snow, we are in weather with 80 to 90 degree days for a couple of weeks!!Might be fun to clamp the camera to the cab roof! Be a bumpy ride, but a neat vantage point.
Thanks guys! Passing thought: this engine has little in the way of a flywheel, the two crank discs are fairly small, and thd spur gear is also. A typical mill engine would have a large flywheel to smooth out the motion locos would have the large drive wheels to do the same thing. There is room on the crankshaft to put two small flywheels, one either side of the center spur gear, approximately 1.25" diameter by 3/4" wide. Not huge, but a decent amount of weight in brass. They could be made in halves and bolted on around the shaft without removing the eccentrics. Question: do you guys think it would make much difference in the smoothness and slow speed running?