here are so pictures I took durring repair of my two connies, It's not as hard as it looks, if you don't lose any part's.............
Split Gear
Old and New gears
Dave, back to having fun
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Where did you get the new gear? In the second photo, the left gear is obviously the new one, but where did you purchase it?
cacole Where did you get the new gear? In the second photo, the left gear is obviously the new one, but where did you purchase it?
It's a NWSL Gear # 2226-6 your best bet on accessing there web page is www.shop.osorail,com
The price was $12.95 each plus S&H Took me 4 days to get mine.
Dave
Looking at the comparison shot of the two gears, it's hard to determine how much of an advantage the new gear would be in terms of strength. I went back east to visit the folks a few weeks ago, and while there did some repairs to some of the locos on dad's railroad. One such repair was to get one of dad's old diesels up and running, using parts from another old one. Both of these units were built at least 20 years ago, using NWSL's motor blocks. I was expecting to see stripped or worn gears, but that wasn't the case at all. The gears--despite two decades of very hard service--looked very good. They are very similar in size (and identical in material) to the NWSL replacement gear shown above. While proof of nothing, it does give me confidence that the replacement gears will be able to give faithful service for quite some time.
Later,
K
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