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Recently won these two HO Loco's on eBay - Opinions Needed - From a newbie
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I think those are pretty good buys! But as mentioned above, the spectrum diesel driveshafts are very unreliable. They break. What I did is replace them with metal driveshafts and higher quality dogbones. I think I got the parts from NWSL but I cant remember. I sold my spetrum diesels when I switched over to DCC so I dont have a picture of it either. But, something I have been doing recently is putting athearn driveshafts in some engines. Take for example this old AHM/Rivarossi U25-C <br /> <br />[IMG]http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/2904/wb0078so.jpg[/IMG] <br /> <br />The driveshaft wasnt the only modification here of course. I took out the old motor, put a high quality can motor in (sagami?). And you notice it is no longer in the nose. I put the motor in the rear, cut a new hole for the athearn driveshaft. Filled the hole in the nose where the old motor was and moved some weight around. Im not done yet, it still needs more weight and some lighting. But this shows you the driveline anyway.
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