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 Posted - May 12 2012 : 3:08:28 PM
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Hi Guys!
I am posting this one early because i know I will not have time tomorrow. I just bid on and got this interesting contraption. It appears to be an unfinished kitbash between a SIERRA diecast passenger car and a ULRICH Kenworth semi. It looks to have been made to run on the rails and is apparently powered. Although I have not yet received it, I am interested in seeing the creators thoughts and methods.
Kind of follows my theme from last week actually!
Sean
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Posted - May 12 2012 : 3:27:03 PM
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Sean,
Thats interesting! I'd like to see how they "powered" it myself.......I wonder if they used "The Flea" type gearing......
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Posted - May 12 2012 : 10:53:51 PM
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That's unique. There was no doubt a prototype somewhere for it.
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Posted - May 13 2012 : 12:38:08 AM
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quote:I wonder if they used "The Flea" type gearing......
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You know EM-1, I should have thought of that too considering I have two lose units sitting here now. Those are what was used in the Ghost and I have two of those as well! LOL!
I bet you are right. It would only make sense now that you mention it.
Sean
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Posted - May 13 2012 : 01:28:42 AM
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Would only make sence for as small as that has to be! (I've LOVE to get my hands on atleast one "the Flea" for a powered Pandrol/Jackson "6700" tamper I have from custom Finishing......
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 10:30:17 AM
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Hey guys!
Got some new pictures to show. Quite surprising is that unit is quite heavy with a flywheel drive!
Sean
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 10:47:02 AM
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| flywheel and coupling in one,who made that i wonder,lookd like an idea that went bye the bye ken
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 10:49:47 AM
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  O.O very nice model Ulrich always did make weird & odd trains
But was this real at some point or made up? But it would work irl hehe
This is one I wants someday 
1 thing I'd do to this is make the lights work
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 1:59:02 PM
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A rubber band drive? I guess it's a speedy little bugger.
That looks like a homemade flywheel, but why in two keyed pieces? 
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 4:41:27 PM
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| Sweet...wonder if that is a flywheel with a clutch...pretty cool little beastie, that's certain.
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 8:13:55 PM
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quote:Sweet...wonder if that is a flywheel with a clutch...pretty cool little beastie, that's certain.
Originally posted by shaygetz - May 17 2012 : 4:41:27 PM
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A clutch would definitely help slow it down, but it just looks like two keyed pieces with set screws holding them to the shaft(s). I can't see how they would engage/disengage. Sean, does the flywheel have any internals?
It was a pretty creative project.
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 8:27:12 PM
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Now THAT is a truely interesting part!
I believe from the looks of it that the flywheel is 2 sections with teeth for a type of "coupling" but nothing more..... I somehow recall seeing or having something like that a few years ago.....NOT the whole truck but that motor and flywwheel assembly!
NEAT!
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 8:53:50 PM
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quote:Now THAT is a truely interesting part!
I believe from the looks of it that the flywheel is 2 sections with teeth for a type of "coupling" but nothing more..... I somehow recall seeing or having something like that a few years ago.....NOT the whole truck but that motor and flywwheel assembly!
NEAT!
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â May 17 2012Â :Â 8:27:12 PM
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I HAVE NOT DISSECTED THE FLYWHEEL BUT IT DOES SEEM TO HAVE SOME SORT OF INTERNAL COMPONENT. i RALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS CLUTCH MECHANISM IS OR DOES,. i HAD A HANDFUL THAT i SOLD OFF A WHILE BACK BECAUSE i HAD ABSOLUTELY NO UNDERSTANDING OF THEM. THEY LOOK LIKE THESE (SORT OF) AND i COULD NOT SEE HOW THEY DID ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN A REGULAR FLYWHEEL.
(tHEY WERE ALL NEW IN THE PACKAGE AND LABELED AS CLUTCHES)
Oops.. sorry for the caps.. I just tested this one - it powered up well - it ran with a slight vibration at mid speed, but at top speed it was super smooth with nearly no vibration that i could feel in my hand.
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Posted - May 17 2012 : 8:59:15 PM
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If you look closely at the "flywheel" again, you will see what appears to ab a ring of aluminum (sort of like a tree ring, around the shaft. The outer part of the flywheel appears to be made of there parts, a inner small brass ring core, (through which the shaft goes, an aluminum ? ring ? and then the outer toothed ring with the hex screw. Seems like a lot of work for a standard flywheel - has to be a clutch or something, whatever that means...
Sean
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