I just acquired a Rivarossi 0-4-0T in pretty good condition. However most of my layout is code 83 track and the flanges on the 0-4-0T hit the ties. Did anyone make a 0-4-0T that would run smoothly on code 83 track? I was thinking I might be able to swap out the drivers.
A bit crude maybe, but you could apply power to the motor and then gently press the drivers down against a mill file until the flanges are reduced enough not to hit the Code 83 ties.
Hornblower
hornblower A bit crude maybe, but you could apply power to the motor and then gently press the drivers down against a mill file until the flanges are reduced enough not to hit the Code 83 ties.
Simon
I'm curious, could you go into a little more detail?
Dunderhead I'm curious, could you go into a little more detail?
I used a similar procedure for this el-cheapo ($15.00) Mogul...
...clipping wires to the motor from the old Scintilla powerpack in my workshop. With the power at roughly half-speed (and the locomotive held upright in one hand) I used the face of a cut-off disc in my JobMate rotary tool to apply light pressure to the bottom of the overly deep flanges on the drivers, touching each wheel in-turn for only a few seconds, as the driver wheel centres were plastic (too much pressure or too long contact could melt the plastic).It didn't take long to get the wheel flanges down to a more reasonable size, and with some added weight, the loco made a good match-up with my first acquired brass locomotive...
Wayne
$15 bucks Mogul - mae by whooooo ?
Life Like alsomde that same 0-4-0T there otheres that were kit makers too quite common engine
shane
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An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
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Are you sure the flanges are hitting the ties? I thought the same thing when I ran some of my old Rivarossi UP steamers on my current code 83 layout. It sounded like they were running over a washboard. Then someone suggested that the flanges might be bouncing off the ballast and not the ties. I tried them on an unballasted section of track I had just laid and they ran much smoother.
I have a Rivarossi dockside that I got new in 1959. It still runs great right up to about a scale 120 mph.
Are you using Atlas code 83? It will bump on the spike heads. All of my mainline is Kato code 83 and the spikes are a lot smaller than Atlas so the loco runs smoothly. Likely easier to file the flanges than replace track.
CN Charlie
Yes I use Atlas 83. You are right, spike heads, same result. Thanks for the heads up.
And now I do believe that little 0-4-0T is sidelined waiting for a remotor job.