K-line F3 Repairs?

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I have a 3 unit K-line F3 that needs repair. Only one of the powered units works. Anyone know of a decent honest repair shop for K-line stuff?

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These guys are the authorized repairmen. http://www.traindoctor.com/

Terry

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Ditto, [tup]

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Thanks for the replies. I e-mailed Dean and he replied fast.

Here’s the story:

I just bought this set (Lackawanna F3) on eBay (very good price, I think), and the seller said in his ad that there was some electrical problem with it, and it tripped the CB in his transformer.

I first tried each car separately, and only the lead engine worked.

After reading Dean’s message that only the lead engine would operate by itself, I hooked all 3 units together and bingo, it runs fine.

BTW, this set has 2 can motors in each section, total of 6 motors. It sure likes a bunch of volts–starts moving ~8. But it’s smooth as silk.

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If this is the units with the truck mounted can motors, as opposed to the vertical mount, they are fairly decent runners. I must say though the tethers can be a major pain. I have the same set in B&O livery with TMCC & RS. Of late though they have started to become a bit growlie so I assume that some issues will need to be addressed in the not to distant future.

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Looks like they’re vertical motors, but they are also mounted to the trucks. Any known problems with the vertical mounted engines?

Ran the set some more tonight. At ~ 7.5 V it will go very slow–takes 4 sec. to pass a point from one end to the other of the engine set. Amazing to me–never had anything that would crawl like that. Steady as a rock.