Rapido Trains british rail APT-E, Руководство пользователя

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• If you are having a panic attack, please visit our YouTube channel. We plan to upload a
video showing how to assemble and disassemble your train. If it’s not there, please let us
know. www.youtube.com/rapidotrains
• If the APT-E power cars try to move in opposite directions, it means one or more of your
inter-carriage plugs is misaligned. Take the train apart and start again, then write a scath-
ing review on RMWeb followed by nastygrams to Rapido, Locomotion, the NRM, the Sci-
ence Museum Group, Charlie Petty, your local MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of
State for Transport, and anyone else who will listen.
Picking up your complete APT-E:
• Don’t.
• Seriously, don’t.
• If you discover that the flashing computer lights are on the “wrong side” and you want to
turn the train around so you can see the lights flash, separate the APT-E into two separate
halves before picking up each half and turning it around.
• When you send it in for repair, we can tell if your APT-E got damaged from you picking up
the whole train in one go. See the note about overarm throws above.
Uncoupling your APT-E:
• To uncouple your APT-E, first remove the joint modules from any couplings you intend to
disassemble. Using a fingernail or a wooden stir stick, gently pry out the bottom of one
side of the joint module and lever it up.
• The rest is basically performing the assembly steps in reverse. If the carriages are not com-
ing apart, pull a bit harder. Remember you have to “unsnap” the plastic connection that
you previously snapped together. It may help if you wiggle it a little.
RUNNING IN
Every locomotive needs what we North Americans call a “break-in” period. This has caused all
kinds of confusion in the past. Some of our more dedicated customers took us literally and “broke”
in to their friends’ homes to steal Rapido locomotives.
Your APT-E has two locomotives, which have been tested at the factory by Rapido Dan (Garcia,
our operations manager) and our Chinese QC inspectors. Unfortunately they only tested the train
for about 30 seconds. That is not enough time to get the gears to mesh nicely or to even out any
jerky operation in a new motor. We suggest that, after reading this manual, you put your APT-E on
a test loop and just let it run in each direction for an hour or two at a couple of different speeds.
If your layout is purely imaginary, you can probably skip this step.
There already should be enough grease in the gearbox so you don’t need to add any more. Just
let the thing run.
MISSING OR DAMAGED PARTS
If you open your APT-E box and discover that there are lots of loose bits floating around, then it is
clear that your model received some very rough handling in transit. All APT-Es arrived at Locomo-
tion in Shildon fully assembled. As much as we try to prevent damage in transit, some courier
companies are really quite brutal in the way they treat packages. We weren’t joking when we said
that packages have been known to fall a distance of 24 feet at a sorting centre.