I was cleaning engine wheels this morning & noticed there were small nicks in the flanges on some of the engines. Never noticed that before. Can you think of
a logical reason for this? Has anyone else had this problem?
Larry66[:(!]
Sounds like you’ve got a problem (like you hadn’t noticed or something)[:D] Idon’t have any idea what could cause someithing like this, it should take some pretty serious force to damage wheel flanges on a loco.
whoa! nicks in locomotive flanges? i’ve never heard of that before. were the locomotives purchased second hand? as trainwreck100 said, it takes a serious force to damage wheel flanges on a loco.
Sometimes large sparks will leave pits in the track and wheels. Maybe that’s what’s happening?
I had a visitor drop a new GP 40 and I was concerned at the time of cosmetic damage, acceped his apology and forgot about it. A few weeks later while cleaning wheels noticed a nick on one of the wheels. Thinking back he dropped it on the yard tracks and I retouched it gently with a jewlers file and emery cloth. No one ever looks at my old athern 1960 era engine. Perhaps this same thing happened, and possably they really didnt want you to know about it…
Just a thought…have a good day…however Im getting ticked off again just thinking about it.
Run your finger along the inside edges of all your track joints, feeling for burrs, especially if you used Atlas flex track. The machine that cuts Atlas flex track leaves sharp edges and burrs on the ends of the rail. I always file the ends of rail with a needle fie before assembly, even on turnouts. Peco turnouts have the same problem with sharp edges and burrs on the ends of the rail left by the track cutter.