will the drivers work to replace a AF northern 332? Frank R. EMIRO
--- On Mon, 3/7/11, gsc3 <[email protected]> wrote: From: gsc3 <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: I need a little help! To: [email protected] Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 12:23 PM Bob, A friend just put in S scale Stanton drives into a older, non funtioning loco. They are from NWSL and work great for him. Prewired for DCC as well as DC evidently. George Courtey --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote: > > Dear Friends, I write this with heavy heart! I've been fighting this > fight for about a year but things keep getting worse! I ask you to > check your junk boxes for the items I need--and you thought I was going > to ask for donations didn't you! > > I've been trying to get one of my favorite engines (Alco models RS-5) > back to running good. I had a sound decoder malfunction. I replaced > that and things seemed good, but when I started pulling a train I > discovered that one truck's drive wheels would stop rotating on a grade > or with a moderate weight train. After taking it apart again and again, > I determined that the universals, shafts and the worm all were doing > their thing. I found a fair amount of play in one of the 4 zamac (yes > that again) castings. When I tried to tighten it the screws broke out > and the surrounding area broke loose. This play was apparently letting > gears loose their mesh. > > Each truck has four castings--two are a sandwich affair that hold the > drivers and the two upper pieces are a bit more like a clam shell with > two halves--one of those halves is the problem. > > I have thought about three solutions: #1 is to find someone to make a > new upper replacement piece possibly from solid brass stock. #2 > re-drill deeper holes in the existing casting and then try and replace > the broken 'crumbs' with some JB Weld--somewhat like a dentist would do > with a cavity. Or #3 find somebody who has one of these drives that is > too far gone, but where this piece might still be okay. > > Since #3 is the easiest, so I'm starting with this group first. Anybody > have one they can spare? Please help me get this little fellow back in > good health so it can run and play with all the other engines in the > neighborhood--operators are standing by! > > Bob Werre > BobWphoto.com > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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/
