Mission Impossible..........
> 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 <snip>
> Cheers...Ed L. (Nov. 14th)
> <snip> I could see what was involved with machining the drivers down to scale
> dimensions. I took them down to code 110 thickness and made new steel tires
> with scale flanges.
> Phil Randall
So what's the next step? Maybe installing those AF/scale-hybrid wheels on one
AF loco and running it around some scale trackage. Call it the Feasibility
Test. Then what.....?
Take orders and see if there is enough interest for a one-time
limited-production run. Stranger things have happened.
My first attempt at converting an AF anything to scale was the ACGilbert ALCO
PA. I took it all apart down to the wheelsets and found a willing machinist at
work who machined the flanges/tread down to RP-25 contours late at night. (Many
advantages to having a night shift!) I paid him with some beer out in the
parking lot the next day at lunchtime. Reassembled the loco with Pittman
motors and it ran very well for many years.
Then, Omnicon came out with a Samhongsa-built Korean-import drive for the AF
ALCO PA body. So I then upgraded the locos that had AF-hybrid wheels. Sold
off the old mechanism, but kept the bodies for the new Omnicon drive. Then,
later, AM came out with their ALCO PA and I went through another upgrade using
their drive mechanism and their body. Took the used Omnicon drive and traded
some of it off to Sam McCoy and used the remaining pieces and parts for a new
drive mechanism for the NYC P2-b electric loco (NYC's version of the GG-1).
Was hoping for a brass import ALCO PA, but that will never happen during my
lifetime. SouthWind came close, but the project never breathed life. After
working on this loco through three different drive mechanisms, I think I will
call it quits. Gotta go do something different eventually.
And then DCC came along........
Cheers....Ed L.
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