I have a Lionel MPC era Geep with single motor from the early 80's with Magnetraction and I slipped a pair of Williams traction tires on it since I have nickel silver rails.So far after running about 30 minutes or running there still holding where they should. I'm sure others do the same and just wonder what can I use to hold the tire to the wheel. Some kind of adheasive thats available in Wal-Mart, Lowes etc.
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Gene,
I would fish around and find a nice tight fitting traction tire, I never use glue or adhesive on my trains wheels, Gene why are you not running FasTrack, if you have Magna-Traction on your engines.
PCRR/Dave
Almost all of the equipment I run is traction tire equiped. I'm using the Williams tires that are very small after i cleaned the wheels with some alcholhol and they seem to hold well.
Shouldn't have to glue them if they fit right?
Use Super Glue(the regular water-thin runny stuff).
It has excellent tensile strength, but very poor shear strength, and will chip off very easily if you ever want to remove a tire(you will destroy the tire, but the diesel tires are quite inexpensive).
No glue. Many train guys treat a traction tire as a rubber band and tend to stretch it more than it should be. Wherever you stretch a traction to it will stay at that point and not stretch back. Roll the tire over the wheel and expand it only to the point of it going on the wheel. Use the correct tire and install it properly and you will not have any problems. Stay clear of all sorts of cements and silicon mentioned items. I have seen some wild ones used over the last few years.
I find the MTH tires to be better made and also very smooth without bumpy rubber in them. I use these on all my Lionel equipment.
It seems the small Williams Diesel tires and holding on pretty well so far pulling 6 Atlas Industrial rail passenger cars behind it. It would only pull 4 without the tires on Nickel Silver track. The rubbing alcholhol may have helped since I did clean the 2 wheels getting the tires real good.
Frank Timko will put grooves in the wheels to properly hold the traction tires. Putting them onto wheels without the grooves seems like it would be a short-term solution.
Theres about a hour rinning time n them now, maybe the alcholhol temperairly soffend the rubber enough to make it tacky?
I forgot about this but wonder if anyone tried Bullfrog Snot?
I tried that on a couple of locomotives, I was not impressed. I have always meant to give the RTV in the grooves a go and see how that works, but I haven't had that much trouble with traction tires, so I just keep buying them.
The search function will find discussions on Bullfrog snot. Not something I would use myself.
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