I bought a K-Line by Lionel milk car #6-22651 at the Thanksgiving Greenberg show in Edison, NJ that you can operate anywhere on the layout using a K-Line remote control instead of uncoupling tracks. When I took it out of the box and placed it on my layout, the mechanism with the unloading man starts moving whenever I turn on the power to the track without me pressing any buttons on the remote and therefore, the man comes out from the doors taking out the milk cans on different parts of the layout instead of just the platform. It also seems to do it more than once sometimes after I turn on the power or press a button just once. I have taken it to my local hobby shop to have the underscrews and shell taken off and have some electrical tape taped on some of the wiring but that never worked. Now I am stuck with this lemon and this car is not made through Williams who bought the rest of the operating remote cars from K-Line a while ago. The car must have a bad circuit board in it and I may not be able to find parts for it since it is no longer made. Is there anywhere I can find old K-Line parts and have it repaired?
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Brasseur Electric Trains, one of our generous sponsors, has loads of K-line parts. Not sure about your circuit board.
Ok. Thanks for letting me know.
Why would K line want milk cars to dump milk cans all over the layout?
Charlie
it's one of my favorite cars- The ability to unload at any platform is pretty cool, and I'm surprised that it isn't more popular.
That being said, I don't have any advice but some good wishes. It's really a cool car.
Mike
Let’s see if we can get together and test it on my layout. Have you tried your other KLine operating cars since you had DCS installed?
Joeceleb posted:Mike
Let’s see if we can get together and test it on my layout. Have you tried your other KLine operating cars since you had DCS installed?
Joe,
The circuit board is apparently shot because I had it tested at Hobbymasters and it kept doing the same exact thing there and there was nothing they could do about fixing it. All of my other K-Line operating cars on my layout work fine. I am going to order a new circuit board from Brasseur Trains as mentioned in an earlier post and hopefully they can install it there.
All four hatches are broken on my car. I can't find replacements. I almost purchased a menards covered hopper just to see if the hatches would come close. Even if not an exact fit, they have to look better than nothing at all.