The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #IX.. Stop In!!!

[nachoman]

I have an old Harriman style MDC 2-8-0 that I built from a kit way back in the 1990s. I damaged the small can motor it came with before I even got it running, because I think the wire lead pulled the brass terminal out of the motor, and I damaged it trying to take it apart to fix it. I went to the LHS, bought the largest motor and flywheel that would fit in the boiler, and thought it would be easy to install. Well, it sat to high to line up with the gearing, so at that point I had ideas of making a new gearbox to make the motor sit higher. Years passed as the kit sat incomplete. 10 years or so ago, I decided to get it running by using an open frame motor I had from somewhere else, as this was a drop-in fix. It runs pretty well, but a little noisy. Recently, I took a look at that larger motor I bought years ago and thought about designing and 3-d printing a new gearbox to fit it. Last night I spent a few hours tracking down an extra gear from an assortment I had, then trying to arrange how it all would fit together. As it turns out, the motor WON'T FIT! So, I put it back together with the open frame motor....