Darrell, that's correct. Both the cover plate and the gear box metal seem to have black paint (or anodized paint) on them and nothing seems to have been worn off.
I'm glad I found the short, too, but it just surprises me why it would work in the first place, and why it would go from working for 6 hours at a show to not working the moment I got home. Anyway, I put a thin layer of liquid electrical tape on the bottom of the gear box, let it dry, and then re-installed the bottom plate. It seems to work now, but I'll have to see how long that lasts. - Peter. On 10/16/2011 4:06 pm, Darrell wrote: > Peter, from your description, it sounds like a "split frame" gearbox with a > cover plate that is shorting it out. Did the cover plate originally have > paint on it that insulated it but is now worn through? > > I'm thinking (which is dangerous) that you may need to use insulating screws > on one side as well as insulating the cover plate. The other option is to > make a plastic (phenolic? laminate? other?) cover plate. At least you > located the origin of the short! > > Darrell S. > -- Peter Vanvliet ([email protected], or [email protected]) Houston, Texas "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) http://fourthray.com/ (my company) http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
