K-Line spare parts in G-Scale

[Krokodil]

Hi everybody

 

My son has several K-Line GP locomotives in G-Scale, unfortunately some of them showing troubles in the gearboxes. On one locomotive all gears on the wheel axles are broken. Today I opened the second one, and saw the they will brake also very soon. Is there any chance to get spare wheels for replacement.

Thank you for any help - here in Europe these locomotives are extremely rare and I have no  idea where to search for replacement parts.

Thank you very much for your help.

 

 

[Rene Schweitzer]

Hi Krok, As you may already know, K-line was bought by Lionel a few years ago. I checked Lionel's web site, and, unfortunately, they are not servicing older (non-Lionel produced) K-Line products. Have you checked places like eBay for parts?

[cabbage]

The question is : Where abouts in Europe are you? The main problem being that your locomotive is a US made article -thus will not use gears made to modern EU specs ie DP rated rather than MOD rated.

Here in the UK the specialist gear manufacturer is HPC gears.

 http://www.hpcgears.com/

 
regards

 
ralph
 

[Krokodil]

Thank you for the replies.

I am from Austria, but the problem is that those gears are very unique and usually are not available from standard gear resources.

K-Line uses two half axles, which are pressed into the gears - wormwheel (molded on a tube of about 25 mm long and 10 mm diameter). Additionally the gears do not have rectangular teeth, because they are driven directly by the worms on the motor axles.

Thank you for any help - my son (7) is very inpatient.

[dougdagrump]

You might try sending an e-mail to http://www.traindoctor.com/ . I don't know if they got any of the K-Line "G" parts but they did pickup the "O" gauge parts from the K-Line inventory when Lionel took over.

[Krokodil]

Thank you for replies. Unfortunately noone of the sources has not even a similar gears what is used in the GP. I am trying to glue the broken parts and somehow fix the problem.

 

 

[Jerry Barnes]

Some USA locomotives have a gear shaft problem. Some have wrapped it with string and soaked it with super glue. Maybe you could pin them together with a small screw/bolt.  

[Krokodil]

Thank you for your help. I made thin aluminium rings for both sides of the gear. They are now pulled on the plastic part close to the gears. I drilled the hole of the part for the metal axles. They are not that tight as on the original and glued the axles with some epoxy into the gear. It works now very well.

[Jerry Barnes]

Krondel, how has your fix held up?  I just got a K-line Army diesel locomotive on ebay.

[Jerry Barnes]

My gears cracked also. I superglued the axles back in and along the crack. Then drilled a hole and used a brass wire to pin them in place. Gearbox is a little noisy, guess the gear is off a pit where the crack is. WIll see how it holds up.

[Jerry Barnes]

I got a second K-line Army loco and found the cracked gears again. This time I put brass bands to hold the crack together good and drilled holes perpindicular to the crack through the axle to pin the gear to the axle, so the metal shaft could not rotate inside the gear.

[Jerry Barnes]

Here's a picture of it, did not work in the above post.