I have a NIB "Thunder Valley Mines" coal dump car from a few years back. I have been running it on the layout empty because the coal is messy and I haven't set up a proper place to dump or load coal yet.
I have noticed the mechanism on this car to be extremely sensitive, to the point that it dumps sometimes at random while the train is running. For this reason, I have been reluctant to load it with coal even when I do get a coaling operation in place on the layout.
I'm curious, are they all that sensitive, or did I get a bad one? Also, is there anything I can do to make the mechanism less sensitive? This one seems to just have a magnetic pin that releases when the actuating piece is pulled downward by the operating track electromagnet.
