heritage 2-8-8-2

[e-paw]

Well I finally got tiered of looking at this broken piece of ( add your own adult language here ) and started to fix it. This locomotive has been nothing but a headache ever since I opened the box, and I refuse to send any more money to the manufacture for repair parts, "(more adult language)" them,, I can fix it parts from my own stock.

I grabbed a replacement Micro-Marc motor that I had from a different project and marked some "cut" lines in the two part frame and went Dremel crazy.    

   

With the space cut out I gave the new drive a test fit.     It needs a little more fitting but it should work just fine. My next problem is that I have cut one shaft of the motor short to fit whatever it had come out of. I used a section of black tubing to join it to the fly wheel on the right side of the pic. It dose wobble a lot like this, but it is just a test to see if it will work, I'm sure I can dig up another motor.