This locomotive was built by Baldwin and used until the 1940s for sugar cane transport on Hawaii. Then, it came to the Grizzly Flats Railroad, Ward Kimball
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I was using it to pull my Aristo Track cleaning car, and I guess it was too much and it stripped some gears. The meter spins, but the wheels don't turn.
Anyway, I took out all the obvious screws but could not get the bottom cover off. What is the secret?
And would it be better to replace the whole motive unit or just whatever is stripped? (Probably just the cone gears).
The motor only drives the rear axle. On the older models there is a serpentine belt drive, newer model has a drive shaft. Wheel alignment is very important when reassembling and the belt version is a royal pain, drive shaft is easy. Note the 2 versions have different motors!
Note that the chloe only pulls 2 to 3 small FRR cars (2 axle). I have one over 20 years old and works great, but I do not use it very often. Never been relubed either.
The Trainli axle set is for the serpentine belt, NOT the drive shaft Marklin version. Marklin did make both versions, LGB only made the serpentine version.
I guess I have a different internet than you do, Greg, since there while there were a lot of hits (This discussion was about the third hit), none were specific to the taking apart of the Chloe.
Anyway, by being a little more forceful, I got it apart as shown below. It looks to me like a manufacturing defect, the gear on the axle looks pristine. I guess I just shove it back, right?
I do like the plug-in board on the right, which connects the wheel and skate pickups to the motor. Pretty easy to disconnect the 2 if you are going deadrail.
I tend to think that a serpentine belt also makes contact on the inside and the outside.
Yeah, It was hard to see the seam and it was pretty tight after I had the screws out.
Anyway, all good now. Thanks everyone. I just put a few drops of my hobby plastic glue on it. It was a pretty tight fit, so it probably wasn't needed
Yes, for it to change direction, there must be at least one roller/pulley on the back side, from a geometric point of view, otherwise not needed if no change in direction, i.e. NOT serpentine.
Greg, I never had the Chloe type of gear slip out of place, I only suggested it be glued as this one did slip out of alignment and it could occur again.
I completely agree, was asking what type of glue would you recommend, you being (way) more familiar than most of use with LGB.
Greg
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