There have been folks who turned down the flanges by running the locomotive and applying a file to the flange while the wheels turned. This must be done in small time slots to avoid overheating the wheels or motor. Once done, the wheel STILL has to be re-gauged and the non-powered wheels replaced.
>From a more practical current prospective, you might consider a "main" loop >with S Helper flex track and a limited number of closed frog or Tom Stoltz >switches. That could connect to a scale branch line with Shinohara or Tomalco >flex and scale switches. My thought being that Flyer is not too conducive to >switching anyway, so it could run around the loop while the scale equipment >ran more on the branch and switched out industries. Pieter E. Roos --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone know of a way to replace > the > > AF steam drivers with scale ones? > > Carey Probst > > Yep. Find a good machinist with a well equipped shop > and give him lots of money. Not a practical task for a > modeler with hand tools plus Dremel. Not trying to be > negative here, but you will find lots of other things to > spend your time on. Use the AF around the tree in > December and be happy with that. My own predilictions > are obviously showing. Cheers...Ed L. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
