Jerry Barnes
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 | | 07/22/2008 12:03 PM |
| I got this tin toy at a flea market, tried to resist it, but it kept calling me over and telling me how cool it would look on my railroad.
I took it apart and did a trial fit with the Hartland motor block. I turned the wheels down(first time!) from some castings I got off ebay last year.
The battery car is an old bike front fender headlight that I had been saving for years. It has a 9.6 volt battery holder from Radio Shack and I put some rechargable RS NiMh batteries in it. The trucks are modified New Bright with streamline fairings.
The Hartland block fit into the old friction motor housing-with some drilling/grinding. I re-attached it with the bent metal tabs. The rear axle assembly I made fit into the old hole for the rear wheel.
The finished car.
First outside run went well.
A youTUbe movie of the first run. The lens got a little cloudy, since the humidity was 100% outside and the camera just came out of the air conditioning.
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Cougar Rock Rail
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| | 07/22/2008 3:00 PM |
| Very very cool, but Snoopy says he could easily kick his tin butt...  
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| | 07/22/2008 3:25 PM |
| | cool! | |
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Ron Senek
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| | 07/22/2008 4:30 PM |
| | You're taking life too serious, lighten up a little! Enjoyed the video. | | | |
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Madman
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| | 07/22/2008 7:27 PM |
| NEATO!!!!!
Snoopy may win the speed prize, but his rocket car is powered by a fan, NOT the wheels.
This reminds me of Donald Campbell's "BLUEBIRD". Donald Campbell was a speed enthusiast that built a high speed car he called BLUEBIRD. The car was
powered by the conventional POWER to the WHEELS method. A few years later, Craig Breedlove comes along and breaks the land speed record set by
Campbell of 394 +/- miles per hour. The only problem was the Breedlove's car was nothing more than a rocket with wheels. To me, not a true test of
the mechanical ability of a motor car to reach it's ultimate speed. | |
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Steve Stockham
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| | 07/23/2008 7:56 AM |
| | Very awesome!! Now there is an item to bring to shows to run on some layouts!! | |
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Cougar Rock Rail
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| | 07/23/2008 8:52 AM |
| Snoopy may win the speed prize, but his rocket car is powered by a fan, NOT the wheels.
You just gave me an idea, Dan. It might be cool to make an electric air turbine that DOES drive the wheels. That would mean enclosing the propeller (safer) and then directing the air flow over a sort of waterwheel on the axle. To reverse there would maybe have to be a redirection of the air flow to the opposite side of the 'waterwheel'. Hmmm... | | | |
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| | 07/23/2008 9:24 AM |
| | Cool! | |
 "If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about."-- C. S. Lewis | |
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Semper Vaporo
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| | 07/23/2008 1:50 PM |
| You realize that you have utterly *DESTROYED* the original fabric of a Myron Fondran original tin toy released in July of 1942?  (See that "MF-742" on the tail fin?) Fondran tin toys are extremely rare and quite sought after by tin toy collectors the world over... Top prices are paid for those that appear as nice as the one you "HAD", with, from what I see in the photos, no scratches in the paint. A similar Myron Fondran tin toy (the "MF-943") sold for well over $75,000 at an auction a couple of years ago. 
Oh wait, I've been watching "Antique's Roadshow" too often... well that, and "Red Green" when Dalton Humphrey (of "Humphrey's Everything Store") explained why he wanted the case of the broken radio back after Red had caniblized the innards... he made it all up, just like I just did!  
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Jerry Barnes
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| | 07/23/2008 3:45 PM |
| | Nah, it was just a cheap Chinese knock-off Charlie. They had 3 of them there in the flea market store in Cheyenne. So, I did not lose all that money. Sure had fun making it. Jerry | |
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| | 07/24/2008 5:50 AM |
| Posted By Cougar Rock Rail on 07/23/2008 8:52 AM Snoopy may win the speed prize, but his rocket car is powered by a fan, NOT the wheels. You just gave me an idea, Dan. It might be cool to make an electric air turbine that DOES drive the wheels. That would mean enclosing the propeller (safer) and then directing the air flow over a sort of waterwheel on the axle. To reverse there would maybe have to be a redirection of the air flow to the opposite side of the 'waterwheel'. Hmmm...
How about a Tesla turbine, maybe geared down a little to drive the wheels... heck, it could even be live steam! | |
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