I've had a couple of the old Cobalt units stop switching. I pulled them apart to find the contacts on the wiper arm had, over time, "relaxed"! They weren't touching some of their adjacent pads. A bit of careful bending sorted that. While I was in there I used synthetic grease to re lube the gears and pinions. Do not use petroleum based greases. The fact is the synthetic stuff will rarely dry out. It rubs off long before that! Thanks for your vid.😊
Thanks for your comments Peter, It would be nice if there was some way of lubricating them without having to pull them apart, hadn't thought of the contacts, might have to revisit a couple of the dead ones,. Cheers Al
Yeah i think its the removing and reinstalling that would be the pain especially if its an N scale layout!, hard enough to fit them into HO scale points. Thanks for commenting
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I've had a couple of the old Cobalt units stop switching. I pulled them apart to find the contacts on the wiper arm had, over time, "relaxed"! They weren't touching some of their adjacent pads. A bit of careful bending sorted that. While I was in there I used synthetic grease to re lube the gears and pinions. Do not use petroleum based greases. The fact is the synthetic stuff will rarely dry out. It rubs off long before that!
Thanks for your vid.😊
Thanks for your comments Peter, It would be nice if there was some way of lubricating them without having to pull them apart, hadn't thought of the contacts, might have to revisit a couple of the dead ones,.
Cheers Al
Very interesting I have about 50 on my layout and 36 are from 2012 and also live in Australia, would be a massive job to lubricate them all.
Yeah i think its the removing and reinstalling that would be the pain especially if its an N scale layout!, hard enough to fit them into HO scale points. Thanks for commenting
Hello Al thanks for your support always welcomed and great videos keep up the good work
Why Thank you sir Anthony, always like feedback, good and bad
Many thanks for information…
Thanks for the feedback
Thanks for the info.👍
No problem 👍
They should send you a free replacement. Not your fault it failed. They know its a problem, thats why the changed owners manual.
Yep but now as they are in the UK not AUS anymore it would cost the same to post it back as it was to buy a new one