Is it possible for me to see a parts diagram Rivarossi 0-8-0 yard goat?
Also, what sources might I find parts?
Thank you.
There are some 0-8-0 diagrams at this link: http://hoseeker.org/ahminstructions.html
Thanks! at least there's two diagrams there, but unfortunately, not for my 0-8-0. Mine has the motor in the tender. What I am looking for is the power link from the tender to the locomotive. If possible, I'd also look for the real flexible connector for the drive line. I replaced mine with some hose from auto-zone, which seems like it works...
thank you all.
I wonder if they would have used the same parts they used in their 2-8-0. See:
http://hoseeker.org/AHMRivarossiassembly/ahm280consoldiatedpg1.jpg
http://hoseeker.org/AHMRivarossiassembly/ahm280consoldiatedpg2.jpg
http://hoseeker.org/AHMRivarossiassembly/ahm280consoldiatetenderdpg1.jpg
That looks a world more like it. Well the motor parts, not the shell. What is the best route for me to go in finding P-126-052-0025, lead with jack? Yard bird? other routes?
That part appears to be just a simple wire with a spade connector on each end. One of those can easily be made with some 24 to 28 gauge wire, and the spades are optional if the wire assembly is screwed down to the frames.
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Darth, thanks. I since you posted, I bored out the round post, to fit the smallest bolt/nut I had. Now I no electric delivery problems. Dose have power delivery problems, and is highly noisy. All the same, it's much better than it was. Give me more time of looking at it on the shelf, and maybe I'll decide/ figure out how to minimize the noise, and get more power from the motor to the wheels. For now I'm tired of taking screws in and out, and trying not to brake solder connections, and will call it enough.
Thanks, also, for the website for the diagrams. I picked up a Rivarossi 0-8-0 that looks like the 1972 version, but it has a round Vanderbilt tender that "came with" the engine. Does that ring a bell- or was it someone's "mismatch"? I found no identifying marks on the tender, just the Rivarossi locomotive.
Feedback???
Thanks, Cedarwoodron
The Rivarossi 0-8-0 shifter was an HO model of an ALCO product built at the Brooks Locomotive works. It sported an Elesco feedwater heater, and the proper "Indiana Harbour Belt" lettering on the tender, which was not a vanderbilt-nor even a semi-vanderbilt. The tender that came with the [R-T-R] engine was a standard square tender with a cut-back coal bunker to aid visibility during reverse switching operations. The wheels were of those horrid "pizza-cutter" flanges. Why Rivarossi saw logic in taking an at-the-time highly detailed and fine running model, and completely ruin it with those abortive wheels is probably going to go down as one of those great mysteries of life...
As if lunacy needed a following, Atlas, in 1967, released the exact copy in N-scale-with those same un-lovely flanges! The model actually ran...
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ef3 yellowjacketThe wheels were of those horrid "pizza-cutter" flanges. Why Rivarossi saw logic in taking an at-the-time highly detailed and fine running model, and completely ruin it with those abortive wheels is probably going to go down as one of those great mysteries of life...
It's probably because they were a european manufacturer, making their trains to NEM standards. If you look at current european model trains, they still use those large flanges. Even the really high-end models!