Santa Fe 1480 Class Atlantic

[Schraddel]

As i wrote in my last posting, the speed was too low and there wa a bind in the mecanism.
That was the reason to demount the loco again:


As you can see, the crankpin and the valve gear crank were soldered together.
The last pair of drivers had not the correct quartering angle of 90° and was the cause for the bind. One of the wheels was removed from the axle and remounted with the correct quartering angle.



A closer look to the new motor. A plastic U-channel will give an adequate cradle for the motor, this was a quick and dirty improvement of an motor change.
In reality it is an salvaged motor out of an old video tape recorder. The defunct video tape recorder has long ago gone away, but not before i salvaged anyting usable for model RR purposes. There is a lot of interesting mecanical stuff in such an old device, salvage the part of it which may be useful for your own recycling programm



Drilling the valve gear crank.



Tapping.



At least the running gear was freely running without any binds or hesitations. The cranks got the correct angle Because they were now adjustable.
And as it is the usual way of improvements, they will stay...

Lutz