Found this trailer at a yard sale (the seller GAVE it to me!) and put some JL pullback wheels on it... whatta ya think?
It still has some issues... the trailer drops off the inside of turns, so I have to work out a guide pin for it, maybe even use swivel rear wheels like the AFX trailers... the chassis wheelies and hops and pulls the pickups off the track under all but the most gentle acceleration... and I think that once I get it to where it'll run a few laps, it'll run HOT since magnatractions are geared high. Heck, it runs hot when I run it with the stock box trailer, which is way lighter than the load i'm asking it to pull now. Anyone ever gear a magnatraction DOWN to Tjet gearing or even lower? I realize the easy way out is to cruise Fleabay for a Tyco US-1 tractor, but I want to try to keep this all pancake-motored...
--rick
--rick



It still has some issues... the trailer drops off the inside of turns, so I have to work out a guide pin for it, maybe even use swivel rear wheels like the AFX trailers... the chassis wheelies and hops and pulls the pickups off the track under all but the most gentle acceleration... and I think that once I get it to where it'll run a few laps, it'll run HOT since magnatractions are geared high. Heck, it runs hot when I run it with the stock box trailer, which is way lighter than the load i'm asking it to pull now. Anyone ever gear a magnatraction DOWN to Tjet gearing or even lower? I realize the easy way out is to cruise Fleabay for a Tyco US-1 tractor, but I want to try to keep this all pancake-motored...
--rick
--rick