I do not remember meeting Mr. Hough.  Sorry

Dave Engle

--- On Fri, 2/8/13, trainsjeep88 <[email protected]> wrote:


From: trainsjeep88 <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Kato
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, February 8, 2013, 1:02 PM



  



Do you know Ken Hough? Worked for Miller and has some of the Miller equip used 
to wind/rewind armatures. Stan

--- In [email protected], David Engle wrote:
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> Actually, IMHO. it worked too well for its time.  You had to brake one of 
> the units by actually slowing it down like the prototype.  No control system 
> had that, it meant  braking by reversing the power feed--very carefully.  I 
> still miss Bob Miller, I was fortunate to visit him and his facility several 
> times in the mid '60s.  The closest thing to it in the modeling world was 
> the late John Allen, who used a car battery in his control system to get 
> similar results. 
> 
> Dave Engle
> 
> --- On Fri, 2/8/13, trainsjeep88 wrote:
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> From: trainsjeep88 
> Subject: {S-Scale List} Kato
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, February 8, 2013, 8:10 AM
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> Guess this all started with the old Miller power trucks. Good idea that did 
> not work very well re control. Stan
>






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