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 Posted - December 12 2009 : 4:22:15 PM
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Latest edition to the roster at least until my Metal mantua Sharks arrive from GIC:
This not only has the flywheel system, but a multi-ratio belt wheel for adjusting the speed range! 
-Gareth
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Posted - December 12 2009 : 6:13:31 PM
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I'm lovin the paint job
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Posted - December 12 2009 : 6:29:26 PM
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Hey Cheez:
Gotta find out more history about this. Needs some kind of belt. My understanding was it was a steel spring type of belt as was in some brass locomotivs produced in the 60's.
The paint makes me think a previous owner liked the BN? The motor runs and it was only $10 so... and I like metal Varney''s. The multi ratio drive wheel is kinda cool...
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Posted - December 12 2009 : 6:52:34 PM
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too light of a green for BN BN used Cascade Green 
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Posted - December 12 2009 : 6:56:52 PM
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"Multi-ratio belt wheel". I just made the connection between that name and the wheels sticking off the rear truck. That is cool! Good luck getting it running (I always have trouble with belt drives ).
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Posted - December 12 2009 : 7:03:41 PM
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Model Power Metaltrain Santa Fe AA (both powered)
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Posted - December 12 2009 : 7:15:30 PM
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Here's a DD40, I traded Matt, MM1498, a power pack for the loco. I wired the two motors together and added DCC. It's an Athearn blue box.
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Posted - December 12 2009 : 7:48:10 PM
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Glad to see the DD40 up and running Eaglerock!
Gareth, once you said that Varney needed a spring-belt, I was reminded of the springs used to mount decorative plates to the wall. I dunno why, I don't think those would fit. Maybe something I tried on my Walthers doodlebug, which uses the same sort of belts.
Awesome looking loco anyways!
    
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Posted - December 12 2009 : 9:13:35 PM
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Nice pieces guys...
My pick this week is the Athearn Hustler...still the coolest little switcher ever made. Mine came as a shell first, eventually I found a trashed shell with an excellent mechanism for transplant...
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Posted - December 13 2009 : 6:59:33 PM
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Here's my last minute choice for LOTW. I've had two BN sharks for a while, and neither run well. I tried repowering one, but the cheap gears made the results less than desirable. So today, my daughter asked me to "dummy up" her Life-Like Chessie F9. I put the shell on an Athearn dummy frame for her to push around her track. That left me with a LL F9 power unit, so with only slight modification I made this:
I know it's a rivet-counter's nightmare, but it runs pretty decent and gave me another semi-reliable BN for my fleet.
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Posted - December 13 2009 : 8:46:43 PM
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not got many bachmanns,this ones just been overhauled,and was lightly weathered ken
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Posted - December 13 2009 : 9:19:01 PM
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quote:Glad to see the DD40 up and running Eaglerock!
Originally posted by MM 1498-December 12 2009: 7:48:10 PM
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Thanks Matt,
It's running very well. It was a good trade.
Tom
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Posted - December 15 2009 : 02:27:54 AM
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quote:Latest edition to the roster at least until my Metal mantua Sharks arrive from GIC:
Originally posted by romcat-December 12 2009: 4:22:15 PM
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Hi Gareth!
Nice find. All my Varney diesels have normal gears without flywheel. I am a bit afraid of belt drives. Varney used metal spring belts, but I would try out some rubber belts (I dont know the english word, we call it `"O-Ring" in german). They are available in many sizes.
I think it runs very quiet with the closed gearbox. - Erich
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Posted - December 17 2009 : 07:21:29 AM
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this arrived today,had to post it,my second,complete and mint,mantua/matchbox,not only american thing in picture ken
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Posted - December 17 2009 : 12:07:33 PM
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 how do you change the flywheel & what is its purpose? 
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Posted - December 17 2009 : 12:49:52 PM
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The "flywheel" in Gareth's F3 is actually a Jerry Martin centriclutch.
Ray
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Posted - December 17 2009 : 2:02:12 PM
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Those clutches were also seen in the original Revell diesel line. I have one in my 1957 Revell NW2.
Kris Carver-Seaboyer
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Posted - December 17 2009 : 4:41:18 PM
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Hey Ray:
I'll have to get that apart to see but, I thought it was just a flywhel hanging off the arnature shaft!
Btw; I had a Canada Post envelope in my mail today and it was a request to submit a questionaaire, to the USPS.
We'll have to confer about that....
-Gareth
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Posted - December 17 2009 : 11:25:05 PM
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At a train show this past weekend with mostly O-gauge stuff. Kept eying this up, made a few passes at it. Guy dropped it from $15 down to $10 at which point I couldn't say no.
Another Rivarossi/AHM offering. I really like the detail for as old as it is. However it runs kinda fast & jerky. Plus the rear truck is the only one under power, it picks up power from far to few axles, and its almost featherlight. That said, a friend as a P2K E7 powered chassis that I bet I could cox to fit under this
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Posted - December 18 2009 : 02:02:15 AM
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oh wow ChrisC I likes!  Hope I find one in Santa Fe maybe Plus that a neat bridge back there Tho I don't know many railroads that put their name on the sides over rivers
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Posted - December 19 2009 : 11:15:38 PM
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quote: Hey there ChrisC! that locomotive looks nice. That is a Rivarossi piece if I,m right. I have one of those locomotives that is in Frisco livery. I also have some Frisco passenger cars to go with it as well.
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Posted - March 05 2010 : 8:02:43 PM
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haha, i've got the Milwaukee/UP one and they are super light, but mine is undergoing an overhaul,anybody know how to get the motor out without destroying it?
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Posted - March 05 2010 : 8:34:38 PM
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Are you asking about the E8? There is a steel fork just above the coupler that holds the motor in the truck, and you have to lift it and pull it backwards.
http://www.hoseeker.org/AHMRivarossiassembly/ahminstructionsE81EMD1973pg1.jpg
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 Posted - March 06 2010 : 1:16:53 PM
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thanks, mine was um, well, modified by the previous owner, and has shell mounted couplers, but that info is still very
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