potentially troublesome contact locations: the sliding contact
between the trucks and the copper strips and the non-sliding
contact between the copper strips and the frame halves. This
should improve your operational reliability.
9.1 Solder wires to trucks
Use a motor tool and a brass brush to clean off the contact point
at the top of the truck. Quickly tin the point. Strip and tin some
Wire-2951 and quickly solder it to the tinned contact point. You
need to be quick with your soldering so as to not melt the plas-
tic details on the truck side frame. Cut the wire about 2 inches
above the frame. This is a bit long, but I don’t want to be short
and need to redo the solder joint on the trucks (24).
9.2 Secure truck wires to frame with
3/8” Kapton tape
Once you have all four truck pickups wired, apply 3/8-inch
Kapton tape to hold the wires in their channels. When you are
done with this step, your loco should look like figure 25.
24
24: Close
in photo
of the
wired
truck after
step 9.2
is done.
