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 Posted - March 04 2013 : 11:07:43 PM
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I have a idea for a really good Mantua steamer remotor. I wanna take the worm gear and sandwich it between to brass plates to hold it idle and in mesh over the main gear. Then I wanna run a drive shaft with u-joints and place a motor and possibly a flywheel in the general cab/fire box area. Also, how much of a gear ratio change would occur if I used a gear box from the Mantua articulated logger?
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Posted - March 06 2013 : 3:07:19 PM
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| Yardbird trains has a good solution is better low speed control and a flywheel are what you are after. They sell a can motor that has a flywheel mounted to a shaft. The flywheel itself is the gear. The groves are on the sides for the flywheel. A bracket is included for mounting it in the locomotive.
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Posted - March 06 2013 : 10:59:27 PM
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Dan said his machinist retired and we won't see these be made until another machinist steps up. Helix Humper has something similar. There is more room in the fire box/cab area than anywhere else. The flywheels was a idea if the right sized fly could be found and the boiler interior re-shaped or enlarged.
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