T-Man,
VERY nice job on that motor. My memory's a bit fuzzy here, but that armature and windings looks very similar to the motor that's in our old Electrolux vacuum cleaner! The thing's ancient, and runs like a charm!
Nice springs in the switch lever ... high tech, huh?!?
Big Ed ... per your comment ...
I have "issues", too ... but with relatively NEW Lionel manual switches. I had just posted this comment on another thread, but I'll repeat it here, if that's OK ...
"I've just begun running my old Lionel locos (1668 prewar, 221 postwar) on relatively new Lionel manual switches ... the brown kind ... I can't remember the part number right now. Both of these locos are having problems running over the switches. The trailing trucks appear to be making electric contact with both the center (hot) rail and the outer (ground) rail as they drive over the middle section of the switch, where things split left/right. It causes a short, which makes the "smart" transformer drop voltage, which -- in turn -- makes the E-unit switch direction. A bit frustrating. I need to explore exactly what touching what in more detail to investigate and debug."
As stated, I need to do a bit more detective work, but somethings causing a short when these old locos run the new switch.
Any specific things I should be looking for?
Thanks guys!!!
TJ