Hello,
I have the MTH Premier UP 1943 and I hear a strange noise coming from the engine. It sounds like a grinding sound, I can’t really describe it. I took off the shell and ran it around the layout without sound or smoke, and I did not see anything that would be causing the noise. I have a video of it running without sound with the noise. Does anyone know what it is and how to fix it? Thank you.
Ricky
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Here's the audio waveform from your video. Just to be clear, when you saying "grinding sound" do you mean the paired "click-click" as shown circled in red? The time-stamp scale in seconds is at top of the screen.
Your video looks like the engine is turning leftward. Does it make the same sound on straight-track? Does it make the same sound turning rightward? What about running in reverse? Or facing the engine in the other direction? If you double the speed does the "click-click" occur twice as often? In other words, can you correlate the strange sound to any aspect of what the engine is doing at the time?
Hi,
The “click click” sound you hear is the clickety clack of the train. The “grinding” sound is faint, but it is there The engine makes the “grinding” sound on all turns, straights, forward and reverse. Thanks,
Ricky
I suspect the pickup rollers need lubed.
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