I have just purchased the MTH Matheson operating reefer car. When the used car arrived, I noticed the operating door was open half way. I placed it on my operating track, applied power and it came on but the door was stuck. I removed the car from the track, removed the operating door off of the clip, re-attached the door and the clip now in the door closed position, engaged the power and it now works the way it should. However, it never shuts off when power is applied to the track. Something is wrong with the recycle off switch. I am not that familiar with the car. Can anyone shed additional light, with a picture? I pasted below from mopac01 what I think is my problem, but not sure where this metal microswitch are is on the bottom of the car. Do I need to disassemble?
"I have the signalman car which has a bit less action than this and it isn't scale. I had a slightly different problem with mine recently in that it wouldn't stop operating. The problem for me was the microswitch. It wasn't being pressed hard enough by the protrusion on the motor mechanism that moves back and forth along the bottom of the car so the mechanism never shut off. I had to bend the little metal microswitch arm with the bend/protrusion on the end so it received more pressure and forced the switch to close. I initially bent it too far out and the mechanism would shut off before the door was completely closed again. It took a little trial and error to get it in the right position so it would shut off the mechanism just as the door finished closing.
