Jblovel posted:MTH sent me another dogbone (after eating 4 of them within a year and being shipped back to their shop 3 times) that was suppose to be of a harder material. It has lasted longer than the others, but part of the reason is I just haven't been using this train long after due to electrical issues. It would stop sporadically until it finally just died. I put it up on the shelf disgusted with it for a long time. I attended the Nashville train show earlier this month and I left it with a train shop where they told me the board was probably shot. I'm now trying to decide if I want to continue to bother with this train. It has been a lemon ever since I bought it. It has been down for one reason or another or at MTH much more than it has ever run. I've had it with MTH. If it was an alignment problem, they should have corrected it at the shop and I have had so many problems with it, they should have replaced it by now. My very first experience with this train was the board blew the first time I got it out of the box. I'm going back to Lionel. Thanks for the info though. I may try that if I have the board fixed. I had already decided that if this dog bone got ate up that I was going to make one of my own with the tips made of copper wire of a thick gauge that would wear instead of the metal shafts, but would last longer than the plastic tits. I don't run mine around carpet or anything that the wheels would bind and strip anything.
If its any consolation Lionel has the same problem with their Liondrive engines eating dogbone drives. The Lionel parts are diecast.
I am not familiar with the MTH drive. Can it be replaced with a piece of flexible tubing?
Pete
