was digging thru stuff and found these have no idea what they were made for
[quote user="mikeGTW"]as digging thru stuff and found these have no idea what they were made for
Mike: depending on size, might make a good starting point for a snowplow.
This is a guess, perhaps someone will know.
Dave
I agree with Dave it appears to be the "plow" part of a snow plow...
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
I may be wrong but I think that's the snowplow made for the Athearn Hustlers.
oldline1
Looks like oldline is correct: Athearn Hustler w/ plow
also found a bunch of old red ball stuff and a box of these must be a million of em
Yes it is a plow for a Hustler. I had one back in about 1960 that actually fit on the front of a Rivarossi 0-4-0 Dockside. I still have the loco but not sure about the plow.
CN Charlie
I sure hope they had full 5 point harnesses on the seats in those Hustlers for use when plowing - 200 smph wham into a snowdrift! LOL.
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Yes it is a plow for a Hustler. I had one back in about 1960 that actually fit on the front of a Rivarossi 0-4-0 Dockside. I still have the loco but not sure about the plow. That little loco is by far the fastest engine I have ever seen. The wheels and drivers are a virtual blur at high speed.
I am interested in the claims that the Athearn Hustler was exceptionally speedy. Since it used the same motor and wheels as the Athearn F7 and GP9, it would seem they would ALL have about the same top speed.
Thus it would be that rubber band powered engines were fastest, not just the Hustler.
Ed
mikeGTW and a box of these must be a million of em
Not sure but that box look's like it's full of "pin's " for link and pin couplers.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
The AHM Plymouth was significantly faster than any Hustler I ever saw. However the stop action of the Hustler, or at least the RDC - if you went full speed then cut the power - it would snap back and forth on the rubber band like a bungie jumper.
The Lionel HO section gang car was allso rubber band drive, but it had a rather large drum on the motor shaft and wasn't particularly speedy.
I don't know nothing about the hustler, never had one, but that box, when clicked on, and enlarged, blown up, is a box of screws. They look like the "self tappers".
Screws that look like they could be used for most applications, as in couplers, trucks, etc., just maybe you might have to clip off a little of the length, as needed.
Mike
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They were all blessed with a high top speed. The Hustlers had much smaller chassis, though, so the same motor would have been able to accelerate and climb better.
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Little Timmy mikeGTW and a box of these must be a million of em Not sure but that box look's like it's full of "pin's " for link and pin couplers.
Nah... Enlarge the photo, you will see that they are screws. Old Lionel and American Flyer modelers used screws to hold down the tracks of them.
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too small for holding down track only about 1/4 inch long
back in the days when many kits had wood floors, those kinds of screws held the coupler pockets, often the cast metal underframe, and maybe even the trucks to the floor. Somewhat similar screws also held the various Atlas Connectors and Selectors and switch machine buttons to the plywood "control panel." I seem to recall there were firms who specialized in packaging small quantities of such screws for the model train (and later, slot car) markets. UPC and Perfect come to mind as names.
As far as the Athearn Hustler goes, while it had the same basic drive as the "Hi-F" F unit and GP, it was faster, perhaps because the F and GP used the same not particularly powerful motor to power four axles vs two for the Hustler. It also made a different noise.
What is curious to me is that the early 1960-65 Lionel HO line, which was copied from and perhaps licensed by Athearn (and Rivarossi and perhaps others), had an identical Hustler body and frame but it had a geared drive, a quite decent motor, and headlight to boot. It ran too fast as did most things back then but nothing like the Athearn original, and in many ways was a nice litttle engine for beginners.
http://hoseeker.net/gallery/index.php?album=hotrains3%2Flionel-diesels&image=Lionel-Diesel-Switcher-1960-1963.jpg
For a while Lionel cataloged a sort of GE 44 tonner body that fit on their geared Hustler underframe.
Dave Nelson
Most of the original Lionel HO from their first time was made by Rivarossi. I have an old issue of RMC from the right before they introcuded the HO line and it has an interview with Lionel about the whole thing and it mentions they were having Rivarossi as a partner and showed a few samples. One fairly telling feature was the section gang car - it had what is clearly the Rivarossi pancake motor mounted with the shaft vertical in the center of the car. I never had any other powered items, just the missile launcher car, exploding box car, and the nuclear transport car.
mikeGTW also found a bunch of old red ball stuff and a box of these must be a million of em
Those look like the type of screw that comes with snap track turnouts or Atlas block control switches. They are used for mounting the electrical switches to wood.