HOsteam@... wrote: Where did you go to get the Mantua spoked wheels? And the gearbox? David, Mantua sells direct. Their parts dept is kinda odd having weird hours. I usually just fax to them and they

Back in the 1950's, Rivarossi produced a Southern Pacific style 4-4-2. Does anyone know what class it was supposed to represent? I'm guessing an A-6, but the model is about 20% larger. I guess they ma

No, in the 50's Rivarossi made most if not all equipment to OO scale, which is not 1/87. I am not sure if OO is 1/72, but Rivarossi made most of their stuff at 1/80 (roughly). Cheers Leo From: "Thomas

From: <ncstl@...> sides..kinda gives 'em that "racey" look. Maybe we can post some pix of our work? Does this list permit that? In brief, No! Earlier in the life of this group I raised the question of

Tell me this doesn't include the cab forward. Please tell me it doesn't. Lie to me if you have to. No, wait, OK, don't lie, let me down gently, OK? - Arved Modeling the Southern Pacific, from AC-4s to

OO is 1/76 scale or 4mm to the foot. I've rounded off the fraction to a whole number, okay 1/76.2 for you pedants. -- Ashley Rachel Pollard Ashley@... Modelling Santa Rosa in the last millennium somet

The Mantua parts dept just sent me their remotor kit. It is supposed to be a "one size fits all" can motor upgrade for Mantua steamers. It contains a motor, a cast motor mount, a worm and some wiring.

I suppose I could measure current draw, but I don't really care how much current the motor takes so long as it performs well. Reducing current draw is one of the primary reasons for remotoring. From m

Geez, David, sorry you didn't get the gearbox. In my opinion, this is the key part. At any rate, it's still retro-fittable, but you may decide to loose the Supplied Mantua motor mount and move the mot

----Original Message Follows---- From: "Casey Sterbenz" <sterbejj@...> Reply-To: HOsteam@... To: HOsteam@... Subject: [HOsteam] METER FACE (was Mantua gearbox, etc...) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:57:26

David, There are several inexpensive graphics programs out there that allow you to scale a drawing as you print it. Why not try making a drawing of the meter face you want at a size, say, 10 times the

While it may be doable, I'm not aware of any road having *modern* consolidations with drivers of this size - typicaly the switcher would have drivers around 48". Some older e2-8-s (like the MDC Old Ti

I have a question that came to mind the other day in seeing the Life-Like 0-8-0 in MR. Are there valid prototypes that used the same boiler size and drivers, but as a 2-8-0? In other words, can the LL

The drivers on the LL 0-8-0 are very small and would look odd as a 2-8-0. You could, though, probably convert her to a 2-10-0 Decapod. Since most Decapods had smallish drivers it would look appropriat

David, I've had pretty good luck using "MSPaint" (that comes with the Windows NT/95/98 operating system suite) to draw basic things and the MicroSoft "Photo Editor" (that comes with the MS Office 97 s

Very good! You are right about the control the gearbox lends to gear mesh and lash, too. Get it right (a natural), and the engine will be dead silent in motion. Changing out the wheels in the tender i

A very good idea, but just print the scale to the actual size needed, cut it out with scissors and paste it over the existing scale plate. Tom

Hello to the list again, esp you, David, I'll try to keep this brief, sorry 'bout my "exponential expoundments". I did go right out to the train room with the postal scale and tho' the results are not

I learned from a friend less than an hour after buying one, that the P2K 0-8-0 stalls on Peco turnouts. Since all my turnouts as well as the club's are Peco, I am a bit concerned. I have not tried the

To see if a can motor upgrade would improve my Mantua Pacific, I made the following measurements "before" Top Speed 118 scale mph at 12 V and 0.6A Slowest speed 1.7 scale mph at 3 V and 0.3A Current d