Help Needed with Ballast King Track Ballasting Car

Nobody's used these? I remember them getting rave reviews at York...?

I wish you'd email me and let me know how much they rent that beast to you for.

I'd help if I'd ever used one.

SD: My LHS and I agreed to deal with a "rental fee" after we see how it works. It hadn't been used before so I volunteered to be the "lab rat" to see how it worked since I mentioned I was re-ballasting my track. The manufacturer includes some of their ballast, which I also tried to no success. After looking at the car, it appears that the chute for ballast to flow onto the track just before one of the brushes is way too narrow causing little, if any, material to come out. Can't say I had good luck and I tried many times. They are not cheap either - $200 a pop new! Another thing is I did not want to tinker with it since it wasn't mine. Maybe a slight adjustment is all it needs. 

I followed the instructions exactly - possibly I missed something...either way, I spent a good portion of my afternoon and evening and will do the same for tomorrow, carefully re-ballasting my track by hand and will bring the car back to the LHS and share my experiences. 

Mine works perfectly so without seeing yours it is impossible to tell what your problem is.

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Dennis

Can't help you either. If this one doesn't work out, I got this one on eBay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EASY-P...;hash=item43a13e5381

It works great and is very simple to use. Only $30, and yes the guy really ships from Istanbul Turkey. This is one time it's really worthwhile to use Paypal. Here's a picture of our club modular layout that we ballasted with it. Six tracks, twelve feet,

SJC,

One of the Trackers purchased one, I can't remember who. Perhaps send an email through the Tracker's webmaster.

I'm no help, but I'll be at the scout show on saturday, see you guys there.

The makers of the Ballast King advertise in OGR.  Why not contact them directly and ask for help?

SJC here is the website that came with my car and phone #913-681-5896  lionelruss@aol.com they told me if i had troble to contact them .

Mr. Frost from the Trackers has one.