"Super O" - the roller wear issue

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Casey - 26 Jan 2009 12:50 GMT

If you are in the planning stages of considering "Super O"
for your layout and you are thinking, "I read somewhere
that the thin rail on 'Super O' is hard on rollers. Is this
a concern?"

Continued: http://atu.ca/RollerWear

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Wolf K - 26 Jan 2009 15:21 GMT

> If you are in the planning stages of considering "Super O"
> for your layout and you are thinking, "I read somewhere
> that the thin rail on 'Super O' is hard on rollers. Is this
> a concern?"
>
> Continued: http://atu.ca/RollerWear

Not if you lay in a small stock of spare parts. ;-)

Seriously, it's only a concern if you are planning on operating the
trains a lot, say 500 hours per year of more. The reason for the rollers
is that the thin centre rail plays hell with sliders.

(Above based on gab fests with tinplaters.)

HTH

wolf k.

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David Nebenzahl - 26 Jan 2009 18:46 GMT

On 1/26/2009 7:21 AM Wolf K spake thus:

>> If you are in the planning stages of considering "Super O"
>> for your layout and you are thinking, "I read somewhere
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>
> HTH

Wolf: you just replied to a spammer.

The "nobody@pseudo.borked.net" address should've been a tip-off.

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Wolf K - 26 Jan 2009 22:08 GMT

[...]

> Wolf: you just replied to a spammer.
>
> The "nobody@pseudo.borked.net" address should've been a tip-off.

Aw gee.

Hope he doesn't come back.

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"Super O" - the roller wear issue