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Posted by S&G Rute of the Silver River on Monday, March 5, 2007 11:47 PM
Not much progress, I still can't figer out how to post pics.
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Posted by S&G Rute of the Silver River on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:57 AM
UH     Ya. Obvously thatwasn't the way to post those, What is the best way?
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Posted by cabbage on Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:19 PM
ERRRMMM....

Slight technical problem with the images?

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Posted by S&G Rute of the Silver River on Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:14 AM

Man Evil Bay takes fore ever!!!!! Progress on the sled It now has a deck, a vertical boiler, a water tank, roof, new ends (the old ones broke) and the running gear out of an old bach. mauler. wood pile to cover the batteries is next on the list. 

Over view

The deck(cab)

The basics

The runnin gear (chain will be added to drive other axle)

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Posted by S&G Rute of the Silver River on Monday, February 5, 2007 4:55 PM
Thanks guys, I think i found an old pice off of an old Loinel coal loader that will work.
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Posted by underworld on Sunday, February 4, 2007 5:39 PM

I think Ozark Miniatures has them.

 

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Posted by cabbage on Saturday, February 3, 2007 2:44 AM
It has a friend in NZ.... I built this from a small pamphlet that was sent to me by family in Napier. It shows the model partly finished on the workshop test track. The final picture would show the centrally mounted motor (single cylinder) it reduction box, the chain drive to the power propshaft, The worm and screw power take off to the front power bogie and the drive chain between the two bogies...



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Posted by S&G Rute of the Silver River on Friday, February 2, 2007 4:14 PM

That looks complicated. This is a pic of it (if it works)

Here it is after they converted to rail operations.

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Posted by cabbage on Friday, February 2, 2007 4:04 PM
Well....

All my chain driven locos use the chain from Model Flight Accessories (AKA MFA/ComoDrills). The cogs come from my local Maplins and I have ordered them on-line from MFA direct. Other sources for these are the HOBBYS catalogue. The other option is to use DELRIN chain and cogs -but this can be pricey!!!





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Posted by S&G Rute of the Silver River on Friday, February 2, 2007 3:45 PM
The 2-6-4 is basicly done, (missing headlights, steam domes, and electronics) one off the bench. and the mext one on is a model of an old pole road machene(Im making it rail). The best I can figure is that it used a thick chain conected to the axles and a flywheel and I need to find one I can use in G scale. Thanks for all help.
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