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Brass steam engines

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Posted by drrob on Thursday, April 2, 2009 10:27 PM
The NWSL connection is very helpful I will certainly use this for most of my equipment Thanks Bob
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Posted by drrob on Thursday, April 2, 2009 10:26 PM
Thanks those are great sites and will be very helpful Bob
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Posted by richg1998 on Thursday, April 2, 2009 10:02 PM

This guy specializes in upgrades. He also sells coreless motors. I have bought from him and had him custom fit a gear motor to a worm for  HO CP Huntington loco.

http://www.micro-loco-motion.com/canmotors.html

He also sells on ebay. Search ebay for can motors. You did not say if you have ever done this before. If not, take time to review the NWSL site. http://www.nwsl.com/

Some years ago I bought the NWSL catalog with a lot of good info, tools, motors, gear planning info.

With Google, search for brass locomotive upgrade as an example.

Rich

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Posted by andrechapelon on Thursday, April 2, 2009 9:51 PM

drrob
I am collecting some older brass steam engines and would like to repower the older ones with can motors and eventually upgrade all of them to DCC. Where are good web sites/articles for this adventure? Thanks

Try Mark Schutzer's website: http://markschutzer.com/

This also might be useful: http://www.geocities.com/budb3/arts/rpwr/rpxmp.html

Andre

 

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Brass steam engines
Posted by drrob on Thursday, April 2, 2009 9:44 PM
I am collecting some older brass steam engines and would like to repower the older ones with can motors and eventually upgrade all of them to DCC. Where are good web sites/articles for this adventure? Thanks

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