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Last year I converted a New Blight boxcar into an unpowered Goose awaiting USAs new speeder as a possible drive source;
[http://archive.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=47210&SearchTerms=new,bright
Update:
Well the USA speeder turned out to be a bust /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/plain.gif, seems ya cant really take the body off with out the whole enchillada falling to pieces, so after sitting forlorn on my shelf for the last few months a thought struck me, I have a drive motor/wheelset thats the same from the HLW wadlin' goose, could I hook it up to a simple battery pack an use that? so I tried some experiments and found that indeed it does work! So off to Radio Shack for a selection of battery holders! I settled on a 4 AA holder that has an ON/OFF integral switch, carved up an HLW minicar for to mount the drive, screwed it to the underside of the boxcar and got the thingy put together, and... it runs! No track pick ups to install, no dirty track issues, none of that crap! And a little more experimenting showed the 4AA set up worked on the crapzilla drive I took off the Lionel 0-6-0, so a whole new vista of possibilities has opened before me!/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/w00t.gif
Pics soon.
[http://archive.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=47210&SearchTerms=new,bright
Update:
Well the USA speeder turned out to be a bust /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/plain.gif, seems ya cant really take the body off with out the whole enchillada falling to pieces, so after sitting forlorn on my shelf for the last few months a thought struck me, I have a drive motor/wheelset thats the same from the HLW wadlin' goose, could I hook it up to a simple battery pack an use that? so I tried some experiments and found that indeed it does work! So off to Radio Shack for a selection of battery holders! I settled on a 4 AA holder that has an ON/OFF integral switch, carved up an HLW minicar for to mount the drive, screwed it to the underside of the boxcar and got the thingy put together, and... it runs! No track pick ups to install, no dirty track issues, none of that crap! And a little more experimenting showed the 4AA set up worked on the crapzilla drive I took off the Lionel 0-6-0, so a whole new vista of possibilities has opened before me!/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/w00t.gif
Pics soon.