There is a recent chat thread by a fellow who wanted improved performance from his N-Scale Berkshire. He says he did try BULLFROG SNOT, and unlike so many others, he did not realize the traction he’d been expecting. Hmmmm …? So he resorts to using a Dremel tool with a cut-off wheel to carve a groove in driver on the live loco. I congratulate him for his cojones. After all was done he reported success with his newly applied rubber band traction tire, and he reports that traction, not additional weight is really what was needed. He even removed the additional weights he added previously. Grip is what we need, scale sand. Now we all know how to take a grinder to our Berkshires in search of improvement.
And in a magazine article we can read detailed instructions to add rubberband traction tires to the MP 4-4-0 and Pacific. First you need to buy the driver sets, in this case they were available, for other locos, good luck. Then you dive in and pry off the factory wheels, pop out the pins for the rods, bang them off the axels. Then reassemble with proper quartering, and voila! You have an engine that will pull better but still stalls mysteriously. Again, it’s grip, not additional weight that does the job.
OK, lets look at this. The cost of traction driver sets is about $8.00 +shipping (four of these and you’ve reached the price for 100’s of BULLFROG SNOT tires), then add to that the risk of prying apart your engines. Or worse, the damage possible by doing radical surgery on a live engine. (I tried to blind a driver set this way, and it resulted in an expensive ‘scenery’ engine). And suppose we all try this and we don’t like the results? You’re screwed.
BULLFROG SNOT gives you a grippy tire, as all but a select few users now know. N scale, HO scale, O scale, Monorails, turntable wheels, it works! Economical and very cost effective per application. Applies without surgery, at no risk to your precious investments. And if you don’t like it, just remove it. There is no permanent alteration to your engine.
No need to add more weight. No need to search for the right size of rubber o-rings, which rot and wobble anyhow (If the factories can’t get them right, all us amateurs will have success?). No risk. And it applies soooooo easy.
BULLFROG SNOT!! It will change the way you run your trains.
