Downunder Bullfrog Snot The Darling Downs Model Railway Club Inc. in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia got some Snot to evaluate and we are now a distributor for it, our tests show significant improvements and as many of our locos are used for public displays, it won't take us long to evaluate the life expectancy and/or other attributes/failings. A Kato GS4 that threw its tires in the first few minutes was detired and became a poor puller, (6 Atlas ACF Hoppers up a 3% grade with an 'S' curve and a 180 degree curve) two layers of snot in the traction tire grooves and its performing far better than original, 19 hoppers up the same section of track, more testing is to be done on a variety of locos. A Kato U30c went from 16 to 25, and a Bachmann light Mountain from 5 to 10. And this is runnning upside down Down Under! Teditor:tb-biggrin::thumbs_up:
Bullfrog On An Athearn Challenger I need to improve the pulling power of the N Scale Challenger and have the little green jar. Which wheels do all you "in the know" recommend applying "snot" to? Also, what about an E7. Front on the forward axle and last on the rear? This is my first experience with the green magic. If this works like everybody seems to have experienced the GS4 and two Mikado's are next.
I just used it to replace both traction tires on my Rivarossi H-8 Allegheny and it works great! The loco was the first one produced back in '01 and it had Riv's infamous crummy traction tires that stretch and fall off, which these did quite a while ago. But the Bull Frog Snot made short work of replacing them and we'll see how they hold up.
We've been getting a lot of snow here in the Northeast... Do you think I could get a couple bottles and smeer it on my car's radial tires? I'm tired of slippin' around on these roads. :tb-tongue:
I usually coat both wheels of one axle, and I have done the last driver axle on any steamer to which I have subjected the treatment. Works quite well. However, assuming you have decent pickup scattered around that loco, you could also do the left hand driver of one axle and pick another axle for the right hand driver...or try it with only one driver on one side.
