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Thread: What type or brand of AA Battery should I use for my Tomy Talk N Action engines?
Post: RE: What type or brand of AA Battery should I use ...
| I have seen fuses (in Talk n Actions and occasionally other Tomy trains) made up of a small frame of brown PCB substrate material with a single thin wire across it that will burn up if too much curren...
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Thread: Help fixing chuffing Annie
Post: RE: Help fixing chuffing Annie
| Amazing! Yes that is pretty much exactly what my chuffing Annies sound like. Glad you could get it working again!
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Thread: Help fixing chuffing Annie
Post: RE: Help fixing chuffing Annie
| I have some of these 8mm 14 tooth gears (I don't remember what gearbox I had that needed them, but it was something I worked on recently). I took apart a different chuffing Annie just to see if the me...
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Thread: Help fixing chuffing Annie
Post: RE: Help fixing chuffing Annie
| My guess is that because Tomy presumably produced their own gears they began to produce "funkier" gears that would cost them less than using individual parts like the metal shaft required for that int...
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Thread: Strange Buyee finds
Post: RE: Strange Buyee finds
| The Jex 007 are meant to be magnetic levitation or maglev trains. The direct translation of the common Japanese phrasing seems to be "linear motor" after the type of motor that maglev trains use. The ...
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Thread: Plarail TOMY Thomas NEW RELEASES
Post: RE: Plarail TOMY Thomas NEW RELEASES
| Some new GoGo Thomas stuff due out at the end of February
https://i.postimg.cc/cg3QwJyP/4904810933762-a9d0317a94ee48ea827fa4920616b3c5.jpg (https://postimg.cc/cg3QwJyP)
Recolored track pack from a...
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Thread: Help fixing chuffing Annie
Post: RE: Help fixing chuffing Annie
| https://i.postimg.cc/vxbNkf3r/IMG-20231226-103708.jpg (https://postimg.cc/vxbNkf3r)
The middle gear is a 24 tooth gear with integrated 2.5mm axle. The outer diameter is about 13mm.
https://i.posti...
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Thread: Whats this Set Called?
Post: RE: Whats this Set Called?
| The Plarail Museum shows this set as releasing in October 1999 https://parlorfleur-pm.com/setshindoryoku1_2.html
The truck chassis is likely dated 1993 as that was the first year of Motor Tomica pr...
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Thread: Plarail Round-Trip EF66 automatic shunting yard (video)
Post: RE: Plarail Round-Trip EF66 automatic shunting yar...
| The switch controller seems to be more common than the switches - I actually have two, one loose and one in the box. They never produced any "C" or "D" switches or accessories so every controller can ...
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Thread: More things to put on the shelves
Post: RE: More things to put on the shelves
| I am not sure what the original thread I posted these in was, but I made files for 3D printing the plastic components of the coupling a few years ago
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19gI6S9b...
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Thread: Plarail Round-Trip EF66 automatic shunting yard (video)
Post: RE: Plarail Round-Trip EF66 automatic shunting yar...
| Hey, that's my video! I bought a second round-trip EF66 recently as well as some old 1960s Y turnouts that automatically send a train off to the left and I have always wanted to use the "automatic" R-...
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Thread: 3D Printed Real Class Slope & Half Rails
Post: RE: 3D Printed Real Class Slope & Half Rails
| I also very much like the utility of Advanced slope rails - I love just about any "odd" piece that allows you to break the "regular" Plarail dimensional geometry and how they level out at the ends mak...
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Thread: Trouble with road pieces
Post: RE: Trouble with road pieces
| I went through a few basic iterations and ended up with these. They fit right into the molding of the original road pieces and hold on about as well as the originals, even when I used one on both halv...
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Thread: Trackmaster bertram international box (maybe)
Post: RE: Trackmaster bertram international box (maybe)
| From the English and French text I assume this was the Canadian box. If you look at battery info and name area on the lower part of the box you can see it is actually a sticker put over an existing bo...
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Thread: Matsuoka-san builds Plarail swimming pool line
Post: RE: Matsuoka-san builds Plarail swimming pool line
| I saw some of these photos and the videos on Twitter, a very cool layout. I was also curious about those subway tunnels, if you look closely they have been zip-tied together to prevent them from disco...
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Thread: Manual/Unused Pieces
Post: RE: Manual/Unused Pieces
| Here is the Super Deluxe City Railway set manual
https://i.postimg.cc/SXtvN6wR/Super-Deluxe-1.jpg (https://postimg.cc/SXtvN6wR)
https://i.postimg.cc/DWmxDW8T/Super-Deluxe-2.jpg (https://postimg....
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Thread: Trouble with road pieces
Post: RE: Trouble with road pieces
| Unfortunately, all of those brown road pieces from that set (as well as the Elizabeth station crossing set that reuses the same molds but in normal road grey) are made out of a different more brittle ...
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Thread: Manual/Unused Pieces
Post: RE: Manual/Unused Pieces
| I believe my copy of this set has the instructions, I will scan them next time I am at my parent's house
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Thread: What is This?
Post: RE: What is This?
| There is a series of small pullback cars with larger rear wheels made by Takara called Choro-Q
https://i.postimg.cc/RqFWr1p2/toyota-86-toy-car-01.jpg (https://postimg.cc/RqFWr1p2)
I check in fro...
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Thread: What is This?
Post: RE: What is This?
| That is Tomy - a mid 80s Plaroad double decker bus
http://parlorfleur-pm.com/plaroad.html
The Plaroad name was reused for B/O Tomica/Motor Tomica later on.
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