Hi everyone, I have an interesting situation. I discovered that my 2 year old has figured out how to turn on my layout (I now need to put the power stip above 5 feet). At any rate, I had mistakenly left my 312 SIT engine on the layout, and while I was at work he fed track-power to it. It started up in neutral and was left there, full throttle, until I got home maybe 4 or 5 hours later. Being a SIT unit, the SIT had been running full steam until it died. When I opened it up and disected it, I found that the communicator (the copper circle) on the armature had split into 3 parts. Everything else looked ok... but now I am stuck with a dead armature.
I have three questions for this: first, does anyone sell replacement armatures for SIT units? I checked Portlines and RFG and couldn't find any (not that they don't have them, I just couldn't find them). If no one sells them, is there a replacement unit for them (I am not worried about keeping the engine original: it is a repaint). And finally, is there a way to repair the communicator? I had a wild idea that supergluing the three pieces back together might work. I haven't tried it yet though. Let me know what you think. It was my only engine that smoked and worked before this, so I really want to get it fixed! Thanks Denny Merritt -Chicago S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
