Some may remember me discussing this project. Well I finally sat down and did it. Here are the results.
and a side by side comparison with the original underframe
The coupler height is a little low, so I will have to take it off and file down a little on the underframe, but that can wait. And that gruesome hole on the front will get a piece of styrene. Used a No 37 coupler (medium underset shank).
Update, attached a piece of styrene over the hole above the coupler. I removed the coupler box lid that was installed, this raised the coupler about .010", to an now acceptable for operations height. I have also added a coal bunker extension using what I think was .010 styrene, but it could be larger than that.
Was planning on moving the headlight to better match B&M 446 a class G11b locomotive (second from bottom)
https://sites.google.com/site/bostonandmainerailroad/home/boston-maine-steam-locomotives/b-m-class-c-d-and-e/b-m-class-f-and-g
Any suggestions on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated. Also was planning on adding a back-up light to the tender (right now it just has a hole in it). Photos to follow after I acquire lunch.
To move the headlight, simply cut it off, patch the hole with styrene and fill the cracks with a good filler, sand smooth. Get another headlight casting (a bunch of good brass ones out there), add a platform and drill holes as needed. I would somehow put a mini bulb in the headlight, run the wires back to a diode triangle in series with the motor, and voila! a working headlight with a scale-sized bulb! (Note: requires careful front-to-rear alignment, so the reflector in the headlight picks up the filament properly.)
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I picked up one of those a while ago. Didn't look like much when it came to me, but it did run.
Cleaned it up and did some wire grab irons and piping.
Back from the paint shop. Couple of coats of Rustoleum dark grey auto primer. Front coupler is now a Kadee.
Kadee had instructions for couplers on the 0-6-0. I downloaded them and printed them out. Makes a nice B&M switcher for any period before 1957. B&M bragged to be completely dieselized by 1957.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
Have you given any thought to adding tender power pickups? I looked into the Kadee No 5 coupler spring method and it didnt seem feasible.
BMMECNYC Have you given any thought to adding tender power pickups? I looked into the Kadee No 5 coupler spring method and it didnt seem feasible.
Mine runs smoothly enough so I haven't bothered. If I were to add tender pickups, I would install metal wheels and make axle wipers out of phosphor bronze. I have a piece of phosphor bronze weatherstripping that makes excellent wipers. Don't use brass, it isn't springy enough to make a good wiper. Don't use wheel tread wipers, they have too much frictional drag. And put plenty of ballast in the tender.